From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 1 9:38: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (209-176-244-82.inil.com [209.176.244.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1AE15057 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 09:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id LAA22363; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:37:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <20000101113750.B89903@Denninger.Net> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:37:50 -0600 From: Karl Denninger To: John Polstra Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-) References: <19991231225535.A8004@Denninger.Net> <200001011733.JAA45198@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <200001011733.JAA45198@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers cheerfully broiled for supper and served with ketchup! Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > In article <19991231225535.A8004@Denninger.Net>, > Karl Denninger 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. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: http://childrens-justice.org Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first? See the above URL for a plan to do exactly that! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message