Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/28/2018 21:58 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: No every OS, not even every Linux, uses systemd. NTPsec needs generic solutions. I'm aware. But it can be an option, included, of course. The ntpsec source includes SystemV startup files, systemd startup and timers, xBSD startup,  etc.  It

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Paul! On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:32:28 -0700 Paul Theodoropoulos via devel wrote: > A crafty way to avoid the 'every x on the x' problem of cron jobs - > which can contribute to such 'success disasters' - might be to employ > the systemd timer functionality for leapfetch, No every OS, not even e

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Udo van den Heuvel via devel
On 29/09/2018 05:45, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: How do you get the PPS into the host? PPS over USB is hardly good to 1 millisecond. LPT. Kind regards, Udo ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/28/2018 20:56 PM, Hal Murray wrote: Agreed, mostly. There is a big difference between the traffic from a few geeks occasionally downloading a file and a swarm of systems downloading from a cron job. Years ago, a friend introduced me to a great term. I asked him what happens if his applica

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> I've sent a communication to NIST asking if they'd be willing to host the > leap-seconds.list on an https link in addition to the existing ftp source. Thanks. The other approach is to get IETF to update their copy in a timely fashion. That's probably as simple as finding out who to poke.

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Udo! On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 05:38:43 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > I'm lost, what does USB have to do with anything? > > The ublox module https://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=240 > has USB via e.g. this breakout board > https://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=239; USB

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Udo van den Heuvel via devel
On 28/09/2018 20:34, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: Is there any point to it without the matching kernel driver? Tom added echo functionality to the LPT PPS client. (not yet in the kernel but we can test...) Maybe you can test, I have no way to test. So if we can have ublox data via USB, w

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/28/2018 19:06 PM, Hal Murray via devel wrote: Plan B would be to host a copy of the file ourselves. Then we can update it as appropriate and we can beef up the server if the load becomes significant. That's a commitment to long term service. I'm just a random jackass on the Internet, so hap

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Let me know if the above source should be used instead and I'll make > the merge request. We shouldn't publish URLs in something that will get widely distributed/used without checking with the owner. Plan B would be to host a copy of the file ourselves. Then we can update it as appropriate

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Mike Simpson via devel
> > On 29 Sep 2018, at 00:03, James Browning via devel wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:42 PM Hal Murray via devel >> wrote: >> >> The recent ftp=>https change to ntpleapfetch also changed the host from NIST >> to IETF. >> >> -LEAPSRC="ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list"; >>

Re: new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread James Browning via devel
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:42 PM Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > The recent ftp=>https change to ntpleapfetch also changed the host from > NIST > to IETF. > > -LEAPSRC="ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list"; > +LEAPSRC="https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list"; > > The IETF

new ntpleapfetch

2018-09-28 Thread Hal Murray via devel
The recent ftp=>https change to ntpleapfetch also changed the host from NIST to IETF. -LEAPSRC="ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list"; +LEAPSRC="https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list"; The IETF seems to be a bit slow on updating things. In particular, they are curren

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Udo! On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:38:46 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > Is there any point to it without the matching kernel driver? > > Tom added echo functionality to the LPT PPS client. (not yet in the > kernel but we can test...) Maybe you can test, I have no way to test. > So if we c

Re: LKM Timemark Driver

2018-09-28 Thread MLewis via devel
On 06/09/2018 8:07 PM, MLewis via devel wrote: Update. ... So I'm dead in the water until my new M8T arrives. ... Michael Update. - M8T order "Shipped" on Sep 11th, "You will soon receive a URL to track the delivery progress of your package." - As one wasn't supplied, I requested the Tracki

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Udo van den Heuvel via devel
Gary, On 28/09/2018 08:49, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 06:11:55 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel via devel wrote: How or when will the ublox refclock be added to ntpsec? Is there any point to it without the matching kernel driver? Tom added echo functionality to the LPT PP

Re: ublox refclock

2018-09-28 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Is there any point to it without the matching kernel driver? Has anybody tried asking for the "echo" from user space? That is: grab time raise modem signal grab time read timestamp over serial port If you precede that with grab time lower modem signal I think that will warm up most