Re: DPRINT and msyslog

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> When I made the debug log changes you asked for last night, I was > thinking the same thine. A lot of duplication. > After release we should rip and shred that. Sounds good to me. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing lis

Re: DPRINT and msyslog

2025-04-05 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:13:53 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Is there any reason to have a DPRINT next to a msyslog that prints > the same stuff? > > DPRINT is only useful if you are running with -n and msyslog stuff > goes to the console too in that case. Right? When I made the d

DPRINT and msyslog

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Is there any reason to have a DPRINT next to a msyslog that prints the same stuff? DPRINT is only useful if you are running with -n and msyslog stuff goes to the console too in that case. Right? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ deve

Re: INSTALL.adoc

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Change pushed. Thanks. +Alternatively you can create a link your python3 called python. Assuming Looks like a "to" got lost. create a link your create a link to your > > > Should we fix waf install to do the magic for SELinux? ... > Gentoo, Ubuntu, and others, do SELinux. BUt not by def

Re: Anybody using the old waf?

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
>> On FreeBSD, ./buildprep -n says: >> pkg install bison python3 >> ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python >> pkg install ca_root_nss >> I think the ln step is bogus. So I'll remove it. > What makes you think it's bogus? Aside from whether it's best to point > to 'python3' or t

Re: Release: waf vs install directories

2025-04-05 Thread James Browning via devel
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:09:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray wrote: > If somebody is still using Python 2, do they have to manually fix the link > from waf to point to the old waf? Or is there some magic that takes care > of that? THERE IS NO MAGIC HERE, nor any fancy Python tricks.

Re: Anybody using the old waf?

2025-04-05 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, Fred Wright wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, James Browning via devel wrote: On Sunday, March 30, 2025 4:44:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time Fred Wright via devel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "my patches", given that I've never submitted any for this issue, though I'd sugge

Release: waf vs install directories

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
What's the story on new waf install directories vs old waf directories? Do we need to change the code and/or fix the documentation? Is there anything else we need to sort out before a release? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mai

Re: Release

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> A lot of changes in the last few days. Nothing has changed in the core ntpd code in a long time. Many of the recent changes have been in documentation. I've improved buildprep. It's still pretty crappy but nobody was somplaining. > Some I am not happy about. Anything specific? > I sug

Re: INSTALL.adoc

2025-04-05 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:05:55 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > > Best to educate the user to debug his own Python issues. > > Have you looked at README-PYTHON? Nope. Non standard file name. Why would anyone look there? Actually, who ever reads any of the doc?? > I thought it was pretty g

Re: INSTALL.adoc

2025-04-05 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:41:02 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > >> Have you looked at README-PYTHON? > > See attached. > > Looks good. Thanks. I'll have more Friday. Mostly references. RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Re

Re: Starting ntpd as non-root

2025-04-05 Thread James Browning via devel
On Monday, March 17, 2025 4:52:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Back in 2018, I did some work on getting ntpd to start as ntp:ntp > There was a way on Linux to set some capabilities on a file. > > Somebody talked me/us out of this. I don't remember why. > > I've poked a

Re: Release: waf vs install directories

2025-04-05 Thread James Browning via devel
On Monday, March 24, 2025 3:12:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray via devel wrote: > What's the story on new waf install directories vs old waf directories? The pylib/wscript has been changed so that the egg-info, and all .py files in pylib are installed in PYTHONDIR (see MR 1450) TLDR PYTH

Re: Release: waf vs install directories

2025-04-05 Thread Hal Murray via devel
If somebody is still using Python 2, do they have to manually fix the link from waf to point to the old waf? Or is there some magic that takes care of that? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://l