* Anirban Sinha wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 04:33]: > > > > On 2008-11-21, Don Hiatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was looking at http://openntpd.org/ for the latest Portable > > > > > OpenBSD an saw that it is at 3.9p1 while the non-portable is > > > > > at 4.3. A colleague of mine is tired of fighting with ntpd.org's > > > > > ntpd server so I suggested OpenNTPD. Is there a newer version > > > > > of the Portable OpenNTPD or is 3.9p1 the latest? > > > > > > > > >That's the latest portable version, but the OpenBSD one has > > > > >since been improved. > > > > > > > > I am wondering if any work is currently underway to port the > latest > > > > OpenNTPD to other platforms? Looks like there has been lot of good > work > > > > in OpenNTPD since version 3.9. It would be really nice to have it > for > > > > other platforms as well. > > > > > > not as far as I am aware. which is a pity. > > > Robert Nagy did a bunch of work pulling in much of the recent changes. > > I put up a snapshot[1] a while back with these, but there's been no > > release. > > > There's more work to be done, and some of it is going to be nontrivial > > to port (eg sensors, adjtime(NULL, olddelta) returning the remaining > > offset) and I have been busy with other things and slacking in this > > department. > > > [1] http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/openntpd/snapshot/ > > > Thanks a lot. This is very useful. Does your snapshot tarballs compile > under, say Linux? I will try them nevertheless. Meanwhile it will be > really nice to have a complete release of the portable version with all > the latest changes pulled in. I have been digging into doing this for a > while, but the sensor stuff is really turning out to be a good > challenge.
The sensor framework will not help you a lot without the device drivers. It's probably easier to switch your timeservers to OpenBSD than going through the pain of porting this to Linux... In some areas we are just better ;) > > Ani > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."
