Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:30:56 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Lord Sith <lordsith49@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0 Message-ID: <3EA9D340.3060904@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Law11-F1056QcqnWwAe0000023f@hotmail.com> References: <Law11-F1056QcqnWwAe0000023f@hotmail.com>
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Lord Sith wrote: > 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. Then run it once a day from cron with the -q option. > >> 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
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