From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Nov 27 9:11:55 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 B126537B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2CE43EC2 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gARHBbV04574; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:11:37 -0200 Message-ID: <3DE4E0A9.9030303@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:11:37 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTP on 5.x References: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> In-Reply-To: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > 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. Let me clarify, then. xntpd_enable is now ntpd_enable. It has been pointed out to me, though, that there is a glue for xntpd. > > 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 Yes, this is a good thing. But ntpdate, which is different from ntpd, did *not* read this file before. Well, it doesn't now either. It's a script thingy. > > 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. Tell that to my computer which got the wrong time on current because of them. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message