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Date:      Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:36:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020604183636.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020604151758.A11168@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 04-Jun-2002 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:09:43PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 04-Jun-2002 David E. O'Brien wrote:
>> > obrien      2002/06/04 14:25:41 PDT
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>> >   Log:
>> >   ntpdate(1) is depreciated.
>> 
>> Eek, please back this out.  If you'd waited for me to finish in IRC
>> you would have found that ntpd -q can hang for several minutes before
>> finally doing an update which is not acceptable for boot-time
>> behavior.
>> 
>> ntpdate(8) may be deprecated in the mind of the ntpd(8) author but
>> the replacement functionality isn't the same yet.
> 
> If ntpdate is going away soon, we need to experiement with the
> replacement now.

Even at the expense of violating POLA?  I know, let's MFC all of current
right now to stable so people can experiment with the replacement.

Anyways, isn't roberto@ the ntp maintainer?  Perhaps we should wait for
his feedback on this since he is more informed than either of us.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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