HOWTO - using other servers

2016-05-22 Thread Hal Murray
> I understand you, and I want us to be good citizens, but reality seems to be > backing us into a corner here. Gary has strongly advised against using > general pool servers. His reasons seem cogent, especially if our Pis are > going to be used, as intended, to *feed* the pool. We don't want our

Re: [gpsd-dev] Much was accomplished today at Asylum House

2016-05-22 Thread Mike
On 05/22/2016 02:02 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote The thing of possible GPSD interest we learned is that the SKU 424254, that no-name GPS HAT from China, has a serious flaw. The trace that should deliver 1PPS from the u-blox module to GPIO05 is *absent*. This is not a simple manufacturing error; we

Re: Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Mike
On 05/20/2016 10:10 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: I now have, at http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/stratum-1-microserver-howto/ May 21 03:51:04 3142 ntpd[2472]: restrict default: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. May 21 03:51:05 3142 ntpd[2472]: restrict ::: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. The e

Fwd: [gpsd-dev] Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Clark B. Wierda
Previous attempt to devel@ntpsec.org bounced, but everything looks good now. I apologize to those that already received this. Clark B. Wierda -- Forwarded message -- From: Clark B. Wierda Date: Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWT

Re: [gpsd-dev] Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Paul Fertser : > Host name lookup on common GNU/Linux systems goes through libnss and > so the actual precondition for the above command to work is that the > "hosts" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf has mdns[_minimal] before "dns" > (mdns4[_minimal] might work too if the LAN is not IPv6-only). I do not

Re: Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Frank Nicholas : > > > On May 20, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > I now have, at > > > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/stratum-1-microserver-howto/ > > > Regarding this line: > Request Expand Filesystem by keying Return with the select bar on that entry. > This will make all

Re: Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Frank Nicholas : > Are you thinking a user might just barely have the SD card inserted, upside > down? I was. It's wore of a concern with the Pi 3 because the friction fit is less definite. I'll change to "electrode-side-up". -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond _

Re: Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

2016-05-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Frank Nicholas : > > > On May 20, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > I now have, at > > > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/stratum-1-microserver-howto/ > > Regarding this section about using `dcfldd`, `dd` or the script `ddimage`: > When this command completes, take the card out