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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:53:27 -0500
From:      "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NTP on 5.x 
Message-ID:  <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:24:17 -0200." <3DE4F1B1.5060301@tcoip.com.br> 

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 > 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.

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