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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:23:44 +0100
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, cem@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, owner-src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326095 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts
Message-ID:  <cae9ed597d249af3fc89b206c19cfd65@megadrive.org>
In-Reply-To: <38787424-ff48-df5e-0831-922d14f1603c@freebsd.org>
References:  <201711231729.vANHTVmo092083@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <38787424-ff48-df5e-0831-922d14f1603c@freebsd.org>

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On 2017-11-24 17:46, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 12:29, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
>>> <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>>>>>  Also we do provide an ntp.conf so ...
>>>> 
>>>> We do, a template, all commented out, and does not work for
>>>> machines behind strong firewalls that wont allow ntp out
>>>> to the net but have internal ntp servers that are used for
>>>> such things.
>>>> 
>>>> Well maybe not all commented out, I think it defaults to
>>>> some public pools.  I believe it would be missing iburst
>>>> for use with ntp -pg
>>> 
>>> Does ntpdate work out of the box in such environments?  If so, how?
>> 
>> ntpdate time.nist.gov
>> 
>> ntpdate does not need a configureration file, just a command
>> line argument.
>> 
>> 
> 
> The point of this thread was which option the installer should use to
> implement 'set the correct time on first boot'.

  The main point yes.
  I guess that I'll revert my commit and open a review which removes 
ntpd_sync_on_start and always add -g to rc_flags and people could 
argument there.

> We are not talking about removing ntpdate in this thread.

  Well, after Ian said that it was deprecated I ask if we should remove 
it to be honest.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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