Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:05:03 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA1 Source Upgrade breaks NTP configuration Message-ID: <4A55CEDF.6010702@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090709021119.GA26896@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20090709021119.GA26896@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
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John Marshall wrote: > Yesterday I source-upgraded a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 test i386 server to > 8.0-BETA1. I have just discovered that it broke that server's NTP > service. > > PROBLEM 1 - Existing /etc/ntp.conf overwritten > > > Digging deeper, it looks like it may be due to the fact that this is a > new supplied file and an entry for /etc/ntp.conf didn't exist in > /var/db/mergemaster.mtree from the previous (7.2-RELEASE) run. How > should this be handled? you are correct, There was a thread on -CURRENT about this recently see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/008968.html I think there was discussion of a patch to mergemaster. > > PROBLEM 2 - Default ntp.conf uses LOCAL clock > Again much discussed, a new improved version using freebsd.pool.ntp.org and commenting out the LOCAL option was posted to the freebsd-net list not long ago by David MAlone, hopefully to be applied soon. Vince
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