Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:10:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf Message-ID: <20020606091023.B92654@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <50718.1023287177@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20020605084755.K91379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <50718.1023287177@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wednesday, 5 June 2002 at 16:26:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020605084755.K91379@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: > >>>> 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. >> >> What's the replacement? > > Ideally, somebody would sit down and write a sntpd(8), which would be a > light-weight, client-side-only NTP daemon without refclock support, > without weird remote-configration stuff and other excess luggage. > > If somebody wants to volounteer, I will happily provide detailed > guidance on the timekeeping magic needed. A good suggestion, but it misses the point. We shouldn't be throwing out things like ntpdate *until* we have a replacement. What's the reason for deprecating ntpdate, anyway? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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