From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 27 12:27:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8385937C1F3 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA75287; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:27:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:27:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200006271927.PAA75287@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Reichert Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: suggested hack for ntpdate flags In-Reply-To: <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com> References: <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message