Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "Danny Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Maarten Wiltink wrote: > >>> [...] Unix tends to start daemons through scripts that you can edit, >>> so you can easily make it run ntpdate before starting ntpd, or you >>> can add the "-g" parameter to ntpd which does much the same thing. > >>> Windows is more awkward; there are no scripts and it's harder to get >>> the parameter passed. ... >> Actually, that's not true. Martin was able to figure it out last year >> so you can now include -g in the service and have it used. > > > I applaud and thank Martin for his efforts, but note that I said > "harder". Not "impossible". >
My new GUI installer will take care of that for you. I believe that the Meinberg installer does the same thing but I haven't used it. > I do consider it more awkward in Windows. No easily edited[0] scripts > are involved in starting and stopping services, and the GUI service > manager has an editbox for parameters to the executable... but it > doesn't work. IIRC you have to add the parameters directly to the > command line, which is labeled "path to executable" and is only > _displayed_ in a read-only textbox. So you have to make changes in > the registry, which always makes people go "Oi! Be careful!". > There are only a few places in the registry where the warning really applies, so Microsoft says so for every place. Danny > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink > > [0] Though hard to find if you don't know where to look. This is a > constant over all software. > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
