From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 1 12: 2: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E42714FA6 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06009; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA45455; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:02:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001012002.MAA45455@vashon.polstra.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-) In-Reply-To: <20000101194118.A19381@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <19991231225535.A8004@Denninger.Net> <20000101113750.B89903@Denninger.Net> <200001011747.JAA45272@vashon.polstra.com> <20000101194118.A19381@keltia.freenix.fr> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20000101194118.A19381@keltia.freenix.fr>, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to John Polstra: > > Current versions of ntpd use these features if they're available. I > > The ntpd daemon in -CURRENT doesn't use these as we cannot be sure the user > has enabled them. I don't understand why they're disabled in -current. Empirically, it appears that the standard ntpd (from the port) still works fine if the features aren't in the kernel. It emits a warning at start-up time, but then it runs fine after that. > We should make them standard IMO. I agree. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message