Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:37:53PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote: > > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[..] > > Apparently XNTP doesn't handle leap seconds correctly > > You mean xntpd (a software package, not a protocol) Yeah typo > > <http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html> > > and DBJ has, surprise surprise, his own replacement... > > DJB. > > But yeah, I'm not surprised. The replacement I'd actually go for, if I were > going for a replacement is Nick Maclaren's msntpd, as Nick is just as > concerned about correctness (if not more so) as DJB, but works to a > portable subset of C, and you don't have to have the rest of the system > covered in "alternative" ways of doing things. What's non-portable about djbware? I have had no problems compiling on a wide range of unix systems. Also you don't you have to use the "alternative" ways of doing things. Do you have a link for msntpd? (google fails to find anything). > > BTW the OpenBSD man page for timed(0) says > > "If two or more time daemons, whether timed, NTP, try to adjust the same > > clock, temporal chaos will result." > > Don't cross the beams! > > timed != *ntpd Yes I know. It was intended as a joke (hence the Ghostbuster's reference) -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- frederick douglass
