Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:50:22 +0800 From: Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187782 - in head: etc/rc.d share/man/man5 Message-ID: <6eb82e0901272050l6678ea37idc8ea53e948a15e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901272013.n0RKDOBR095434@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200901272013.n0RKDOBR095434@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: keramida (doc committer) > Date: Tue Jan 27 20:13:24 2009 > New Revision: 187782 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187782 > > Log: > When synchronizing the clock at system startup time, use both > the -g and -q options. They do a slightly different thing and > both are necessary when the time difference is large. > > Noticed by: danger, in the forums > Approved by: roberto > MFC after: 1 week > > Modified: > head/etc/rc.d/ntpd > head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 > > Modified: head/etc/rc.d/ntpd > ============================================================================== > --- head/etc/rc.d/ntpd Tue Jan 27 19:56:38 2009 (r187781) > +++ head/etc/rc.d/ntpd Tue Jan 27 20:13:24 2009 (r187782) > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ ntpd_precmd() > rc_flags="-c ${ntpd_config} ${ntpd_flags}" > > if checkyesno ntpd_sync_on_start; then > - rc_flags="-g $rc_flags" > + rc_flags="-q -g $rc_flags" > fi > > if [ -z "$ntpd_chrootdir" ]; then > According to ntp(8), -q makes ntpd exits just after the first time the clock is set. Doesn't this mean if ntpd_sync_on_start is on and the time difference is large, then ntpd will exit after the first time sync? Is this the behavior we really want? Shouldn't we keep ntp running after the clock is adjusted? Thanks, Rong-En Fan
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