Re: Weirdest bug yet.

2016-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
No rawstats or protostats either. e...@thyrsus.com said: > It was adding "subtype" as an alias for "mode" in the lexical analyzer. This > somehow confuses the crap out of the parser's FSM. ... Remember the saveconfigandquit stuff you ripped out? That would have caught this. (if we had used it

Weirdest bug yet.

2016-07-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
OK, this is officially bizarre. Earlier this evening I got a report from Gary that ntpd wasn't logging peerstats. I'd just done a significan change to logging ("More magic-address banishment.) so I hastily reverted that. Then tested - still no good, no peerstats. Picking an arbitrary revision a

Re: Linux capabilites check broken on NetBSD

2016-07-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > On NetBSD: > 07-06T15:42:17 ntpd[4940]: root can't be dropped due to missing capabilities. So don't do that, then. Drop root, I mean. Without some equivalent of Linux or Solaris fine-grained privilege control, setting the clock won't work afterwards. What has NetBSD been doing bef

Re: Do we have a list of user visible changes from ntp classic?

2016-07-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > It's probably all in NEWS (or should be), but that's chronological and seems > hard to read. For example, the deleted refclocks are scattered all over the > place. > > I think I'm suggesting something like CHANGES-form-ntp-classic https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/ For your con

Linux capabilites check broken on NetBSD

2016-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
On NetBSD: 07-06T15:42:17 ntpd[4940]: root can't be dropped due to missing capabilities. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Removing interleaved mode

2016-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
dfoxfra...@gmail.com said: > With Eric's permission, I have removed support for interleaved mode in my > proto-refactor branch. Here is its commit-message eulogy: Seems fine with me. I've never used it. We should test things to make sure nothing strange happens. I think that requires 4 syste

Do we have a list of user visible changes from ntp classic?

2016-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
It's probably all in NEWS (or should be), but that's chronological and seems hard to read. For example, the deleted refclocks are scattered all over the place. I think I'm suggesting something like CHANGES-form-ntp-classic -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _

Re: Removing interleaved mode

2016-07-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Daniel Franke : > With Eric's permission, I have removed support for interleaved mode in > my proto-refactor branch. I note for the record that said permission was not given casually. In fact, I have considered this feature dodgy and likely to be failure-prone since I first tripped over it in the

Removing interleaved mode

2016-07-06 Thread Daniel Franke
With Eric's permission, I have removed support for interleaved mode in my proto-refactor branch. Here is its commit-message eulogy: Interleaved mode was an invention intended to improve timekeeping precision in symmetric and broadcast mode. The problem it intended to solve is that tran

Re: Refclock polling ramp up

2016-07-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > I just pushed a fix. Would you please sanity check... Will do. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Refclock polling ramp up

2016-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
I just pushed a fix. Would you please sanity check... For servers, minpoll and maxpoll default to 6 and 10. There is also a check to make sure that minpoll isn't greater than maxpoll. For refclocks, minpoll defaults to 6 and maxpoll defaults to minpoll. The problem is that you were storing m