John Marshall wrote: > Yesterday I source-upgraded a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 test i386 server to > 8.0-BETA1. I have just discovered that it broke that server's NTP > service. > > PROBLEM 1 - Existing /etc/ntp.conf overwritten > > > Digging deeper, it looks like it may be due to the fact that this is a > new supplied file and an entry for /etc/ntp.conf didn't exist in > /var/db/mergemaster.mtree from the previous (7.2-RELEASE) run. How > should this be handled? you are correct, There was a thread on -CURRENT about this recently see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/008968.html I think there was discussion of a patch to mergemaster. > > PROBLEM 2 - Default ntp.conf uses LOCAL clock >
Again much discussed, a new improved version using freebsd.pool.ntp.org and commenting out the LOCAL option was posted to the freebsd-net list not long ago by David MAlone, hopefully to be applied soon. Vince _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
