Yo Richard! On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:46:29 -0600 Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> On 3/5/19 12:45 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > Yo Eric!
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 02:11:52 -0500
> > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> That would leave the configure option. I've never used it.
> >>
> >> I think we can justify both removals on security. If Mode 6 is a
> >> read-only channel there can never be any exploits over it. That's
> >> a significant gain in provable bulletproofness.
> >>
> >> You want to reconfure your ntpd? Bounce it. This won't happen
> >> often.
> >
> > Ugh, wrong. I've got to agree with Achim here. It takes days for
> > my ntpd's to converge, that is why you don't bounce it often.
>
> How often are you reconfiguring your running ntpd today,
Of the more than dozen ntpd I run, often one, maybe all, are reconfigured
every day. I can do this as I have enough other untouched ntpd to
keep a stable reference.
> and by what
> mechanism (i.e. are you using the Mode 6 writable parameter(s) being
> proposed for removal)?
I do it with: killall ntpd
But I would like something like SIGHUP to get ntpd to re-read the config
file and yet keep state.
RGDS
GARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703
g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588
Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas?
"If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
pgp4UwfPCLnIP.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
