From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 5 16:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFF837B406; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EC28781448; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:10:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:10:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf Message-ID: <20020606091023.B92654@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020605084755.K91379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <50718.1023287177@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50718.1023287177@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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