On 2010-02-22, ryandoyle <[email protected]> wrote: > For anyone interested in setting up a Garmin 18 LVC GPS receiver on > FreeBSD 8, I wrote up a fairly detailed tutorial of my experiences > here: http://blog.doylenet.net/?p=145 > > If there are any comments or errors, please let me know > My comments are all on your FreeBSD configuration. I believe that the FreeBSD base version of ntp is the same one that you installed from the port system. That seemed a little redundant. That version is much older than the /usr/ports/net/ntp-devel version. The development version is very well tested and debugged by the time that the maintainer commits it to the ports system. The reference clock support is probably the one area of NTP that is continuously being evolved. Someone with a Garmin 18 problem that asks a question to this group is most likely asked to install the development version to see if the problem is still present. Configuring the min and max poll for a reference clock sort of goes against the grain of how ntp is supposed to work. Let the daemon adjust things according to how the clock is performing in relation to the it's other sources of information. It needs to have the maximum degree of freedom in order to converge on the best solution!
Most admins cringe at the thought of allowing root logins from any location other than the local console. The better advice is to create another user on your BSD computer and put them into the 'wheel' group. That user can use SSH from anywhere and 'su' to gain root privleges. Better yet, is to install the 'sudo' port and that user never needs to know the root password! You don't need to install either bash or vim in order to successfully install and operate ntp. The default shell on FreeBSD and the vi editor are more than sufficient. I'll let the Garmin wizards comment on that part of the instruction. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
