Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:37:50 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-) Message-ID: <20000101113750.B89903@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <200001011733.JAA45198@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800 References: <19991231225535.A8004@Denninger.Net> <200001011733.JAA45198@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <19991231225535.A8004@Denninger.Net>,
> Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> wrote:
> >
> > What does (someone) need to do to get this changed out/updated? I can't
> > send it in as a port, since its part of the base package (setting
> > it up as a port would be pretty trivial from what I can see)
>
> There already _is_ a port of it (net/ntp). And there are hooks in
> /etc/rc.conf ("xntpd_program") to use the ports version instead of the
> one in the base system.
>
> John
Thanks; I just updated /usr/src and saw the changes.
This has been broken for a *long* time - at least since the 4.0 branch
began. Its definitely a kernel interface problem with the older code;
while the adjtime call is being made its not happening and eventually
the code executes a "step" instead (which is a bad news; those should
basically never happen once xntpd settles down in a day or three after
a cold start)
It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest
from the official site last night and by this morning the dispersion
and offsets were stable.
Ntpd is the "official" code line now - the "x" line is considered deprecated
by the official maintainers, so if you're going to support the ntpd line in
the base system the other(s) should probably be removed entirely.
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