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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:16:59
Message-Id: 1294361407.9693.10.camel@rattus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file. by Dale
1 On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:46 -0600, Dale wrote:
2 > kashani wrote:
3 > > On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote:
4 > >> I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd
5 > >> is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ...
6 > >>
7 > >
8 > > I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain in the
9 > > ass. IIRC it was combination of crap defaults, poor docs, and plain
10 > > not working. I think this was over five years ago and doubtfully thing
11 > > have improved, but I definitely wasn't impressed at the time.
12 > >
13 > > kashani
14 > >
15 > >
16 >
17 > It is a basic program for sure. Commands that I used before with ntp
18 > were missing. The plain ntp has a lot more options and more commands
19 > for seeing what is going on while openntp does not have much.
20 >
21 > I think either would work here if I didn't have some underlying issue
22 > somewhere.
23 >
24 > Dale
25 >
26 > :-) :-)
27 >
28
29 Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after
30 ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of
31 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf
32 and /etc/conf.d/ntpd.
33
34 This might help us see more detail of what is happening.
35
36 BillK
37
38 * sanitised - obfuscate public IP's only.
39
40 --
41 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
42 Home in Perth!

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