Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:14:39 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld <paul@psconsult.nl> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Add timecounter option to rc.conf Message-ID: <20030408091439.A36404@psconsult.nl> In-Reply-To: <xzpllyns3cx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:49:50PM %2B0200 References: <30340.1049663478@critter.freebsd.dk> <xzpllyns3cx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:49:50PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > (another such example is ntp.conf - the needs of most ntpd users can > > > be met with an ntp.conf generated automatically from information which > > > is already present in rc.conf) > > The new NTP4 automatic configuration stuff is promising in this respect, > > with a little luck people will need to configure nothing at all. > > That would be nice, but we can still do far better than the status quo > for the current version. We actually have some of the required knobs > (inherited from NetBSD along with the rest of rcNG) but they are not > documented and still fall a little short of what I would like to see. > > I would like to have a single ntp_servers variable listing NTP servers > in the host's vicinity; if set, that list would be appended to the > ntpdate command line, and used to autogenerate ntp.conf. Of course, > if it were empty (the default), any preexisting ntp.conf would be left > intact. I also think ntpdate_enable and ntpd_enable should default to > YES if ntp_servers is non-empty, but that might be slightly more > controversial. On would expect that changing ntp_servers in rc.conf would be sufficient to change your ntp servers bus if you leave an existing ntp.conf intact only the first values ever put in ntp_servers will be honoured. This might be very confusing for those not familiar with ntp.conf (and ntp_servers in rc.conf does not invite new admins to learn about ntp.conf). Another thing, *if* we want to automatically set up ntp.conf, what about the NTP servers we were informed of by DHCP? > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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