On Feb 23, 1:03 am, Thomas Laus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Thank you for your comments. > 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! All the sample ntp.conf files had max and mix poll configured, I was just following these. Should these not be entered? Thanks for the info on the ntp-devel port. > > 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! I also agree, I guess it is the responsibility of the user to know the implications of either way. > > 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 could have left this out, but I chose to include it as bash makes the average Linux user feel more at home. A bit of bash and vim with Linux-like bindings and no one will even notice you are using FreeBSD! But yes, definitely don't _need_ bash or vim to run ntp. > > 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
