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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:27:37 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/rc.d Makefile ntpd rpcbind 
Message-ID:  <93999.1095143257@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:07:12 MDT." <20040914.000712.57271340.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20040914.000712.57271340.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <200409140301.i8E31cvR099301@repoman.freebsd.org>
>            Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>: ntpdate's use has been depreciated by the ntpd
>: authors for quite some time so this change shouldn't be unexpected.
>
>Except that ntpdate is still useful, despite their views to the
>contrary.  I really really really do not like this change.

We should probably import the SNTP daemon which OpenBSD has written
and use that for lightweight use.  I talked to Henning about it at
SUCON'04 and what I heard made sense for the lightweight segment.

Poul-Henning
(the _real_ NTP wizard in these parts :-)

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