Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:03:29 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RCng/NTP Catch-22 Message-ID: <20041020220329.64CE75D04@ptavv.es.net>
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I have run into a messy issue with ntp on a V5 or current system. I have kludged around it, but the problem really needs to be fixed. ntpd uses symlinked devices to talk to the reference clock (if there is one). lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jul 1 14:36 /dev/pps1 -> /dev/cuaa1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jul 1 14:36 /dev/true1 -> /dev/cuaa1 While I really wish ntpd did not do this, it does and it's in the base system. Since /etc/rc.d/ntpd contains: BEFORE: LOGIN and /etc/rc.d/devfs contains: REQUIRE: LOGIN I don't see a clean way to create the symlinks at boot time. If the devices are not present when ntp starts, it never looks again. I have kludged this by adding the symlinks in the ntpd script, but this is really ugly. There should be a better way of doing it. Ideally, ntp should read the device(s) to use from ntp.conf (and quit overloading the loopback address space while we are at it). Barring this, there needs to be a way of getting th devices created before nptd is started. Any of the RCng folks have any suggestions? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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