Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/26/2014 11:25 PM, Dale wrote: Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/26/2014 03:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even

[gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated, unnecessarily hard to setup correctly, fragile and contrary to popular belief

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/26/2014 03:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated, unnecessarily hard to setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/26/2014 03:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated, unnecessarily hard to setup

[gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:14:04 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Is this gentoo wiki article still relevant when it comes to configuring chrony on gentoo? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Chrony Or should I stick to the instructions given here: /usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.txt.bz2 The wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 July 2014 12:31:55 Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated, unnecessarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/26/2014 09:38 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:14:04 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Is this gentoo wiki article still relevant when it comes to configuring chrony on gentoo? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Chrony Or should I stick to the instructions given here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Dale
Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/26/2014 03:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:10:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Chrony is maintained by Red Hat in cooperation with the timekeeping code in the kernel. I didn't know Red Hat had taken over its maintenance - thanks for the info. So the stories about Red Hat trying to force everyone to use