Test farm news

2016-06-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
A description of the test farm facilities and how to get access is up at https://www.ntpsec.org/testfarm.html The first major test run is now in day two. It's using fe, nd, and ne; The Pi 2s, au and cu are available. I jusr assembled the sixth node and will bring it up this weekend. It will

Re: burst/iburst

2016-06-17 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:05:40 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > g...@rellim.com said: > > Gack. Something about how burst works was bugging me. So I put > > tcpdump on it. I don't see any difference between burst and not > > having burst... I'm not saying it does not do anything, just not > >

Re: Problem with the ntpsec.org website push hook

2016-06-17 Thread Amar Takhar
On 2016-06-17 09:35 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I created a testfarm/index.txt master, but pushing it doesn't publish > a testfarm/index.html page. It wasn't setup to install files in subdirectories I have fixed this. Amar. ___ devel mailing list d

Problem with the ntpsec.org website push hook

2016-06-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I created a testfarm/index.txt master, but pushing it doesn't publish a testfarm/index.html page. Amar, please fix this. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailm

Re: Test farm news

2016-06-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > g...@rellim.com said: > > You need to do more than shutdown ntpd to get back to pre-ntp initial > > conditions. For a real good test you need to set the system clock off by > > maybe a minute, or an hour ,or maybe back to 1970. Remove the drift file. > > Remove the battery from

Re: Test farm news

2016-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > # This does everyting but the battery removal. Consider leaving the battery out of (at least) one system so the GPS cold start case is easy to test. I think at least some GPS units have a software restart option that does the same thing. Are there any cold-start case

Re: Test farm news

2016-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > You need to do more than shutdown ntpd to get back to pre-ntp initial > conditions. For a real good test you need to set the system clock off by > maybe a minute, or an hour ,or maybe back to 1970. Remove the drift file. > Remove the battery from you GPS. And probably re

Re: burst/iburst

2016-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > Gack. Something about how burst works was bugging me. So I put tcpdump on > it. I don't see any difference between burst and not having burst... I'm > not saying it does not do anything, just not anything immediately obvious. burst only matters if the polling interval

Re: VERSION string, support tangle

2016-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > While we are at 0.9.*, there isn't a need to distinguish pre-release-under- > development and "release". Our users so far seem to be quite willing to > pull from tip, or pull from the most recent tag, depending on what they > intend. The security researchers look