From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 20 14:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13206 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13170 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01369; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:57:19 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <34EDE33D.1FBFA4E@san.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:53:09 -0600 To: Studded From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Things I'd like to see in 2.2.6 Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 2:10 PM -0600 2/20/98, Studded wrote: >Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >> >> At 5:11 AM -0600 2/20/98, Studded wrote: >> >> >2. Upgrade xntpd. Currently version 3.4e is part of the base system. >> >That's several years and versions behind. The most current version of >> >xntpd is 3-5.92, and has many improvements in functionality, efficiency >> >and >> >stability. It compiles almost clean (just a few nits) on -Stable out of >> >the box. Philippe was gracious enough to volunteer to take a look at >> >this. I originally thought that this would be a -current thing, but if >> >the new sources go into /usr/src/contrib (which I understand is the way >> >of things now) it shouldn't be too tough. >> >More info: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ >> >> I just downloaded ntp-4.0.72.tar.gz and it installed perfectly on by 2.2.5+ >> system. All I did was extract, configure, make. No editing necessary. > > I'm not familiar with 'ntp-4.0.72'. Where did you get it? Same site. > I got xntpd >3-5.92 from the site listed above, and based on the file structure of >the sources in that file it appears to be the successor to what we have >in our tree. And I didn't need to edit anything in the xntpd archive I >installed, it just had a few minor compiler warnings, mostly related to >discarding const info. Well, if you had read the instructions that came with it, they said to ignore such warnings because they were expected (and with work, will eventually be eliminated) but do not represent any real problems. I believe that we have a "it just works" port here. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message