Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:49:27 -0600 From: "Lord Sith" <lordsith49@hotmail.com> To: wmoran@potentialtech.com, freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0 Message-ID: <Law11-F1056QcqnWwAe0000023f@hotmail.com>
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ntpd only claims to mimic ntpdate in functionality. I'm not excited about the prospect of having another daemon running with root priveldges on a known port for something that only needs to be run maybe two or three times a day. >From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> >To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0 >Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:54:06 -0400 > >Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo@ieee.org> writes: >>>| Also, ntpdate is depreciated. You should be using ntpd with the >>>| proper switches/configuration. >>> ntpdate was working *perfectly* with >>> 4.7R,4.8-Stable. >> >> >>So? That's a significantly different version. >> >>Are you *sure* you want to be running 5.0? It doesn't sound like you're >>much of a debugger yourself, and it's not >>as though 5.x is recommended for anybody else yet... > >I'm going to repeat myself here: >ntpdate is depreciated. The functionality in it is duplicated by ntpd. >It shouldn't even be in the 5.0 tree. I'm considering filing a pr to >request that it be removed. Opinions? > >-- >Bill Moran >Potential Technologies >http://www.potentialtech.com > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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