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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   suggested hack for ntpdate flags
Message-ID:  <200006271927.PAA75287@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com>
References:  <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com>

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<<On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:19:56 -0400, Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> said:

> I've taken to doing this in various boxes in /etc/rc.conf:
>   ntpdate_flags="`sed -n 's/^server \(.*\)/\1/p' < /etc/ntp.conf`"

> just so I don't have two lists of time servers to maintain.

Hmmm.  Around here, we simply call our NTP servers `ntp-0', `ntp-1',
and `ntp-2', so there's no maintenance involved.  I can see where your
approach might help for a site which doesn't run its own NTP servers.

-GAWollman

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