From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Nov 27 8:53:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BA337B404 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from spoon.beta.com (spoon.beta.com [199.165.180.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6C443EB2 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost.beta.com [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARGrRTY013408; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:53:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Message-Id: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTP on 5.x In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:24:17 -0200." <3DE4F1B1.5060301@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:53:27 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I noticed, the worst way possible, that there are a couple of > differences between ntp activation between -stable and -current. > > First, xntpd is now called ntpd. Umm, its been this way for quite awhile. From a 4.7 /etc/defaults/rc.conf... xntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" # path to ntpd, if you want a different one. This has been true since at least 4.0, IIRC. > Second, ntpdate now reads /etc/ntp.conf. Not much of a problem, but on > -stable it's common practice to change ntpdate_flags to point to the server. From the man page for ntpd, the FILES section: /etc/ntp.conf the default name of the configuration file > I just think this ought to be documented somewhere (and I, at least, > couldn't find it). What, in particular, should be documented? /etc/defaults/rc.conf? Your changes to /etc/rc.conf? /etc/rc.network, which both starts ntpd and _calls_ it ntpd in the echo command? The man page should be duplicated someplace else? This is probably one of the few areas that hasn't changed that much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message