On 1/20/21 4:24 PM, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
If you split the file it's a flag day for all users (no small matter when the
uservase is as conservative and risk-averse as ntpd's)
We should be able to write a script to do the splitting.
It's a concern even beyond risk-aversion.
My producti
e...@thyrsus.com said:
> OTOH, if you don't split the file you lose some of the simplification you
> might have collected, as both pices have to carry the same parser and
> generate errors when ry're fed a piece of configuration that's not theirs to
> handle.
If you split the config file, there
Hal Murray via devel :
>
> Gary said:
> > I think he is referring to reecent proposals to split ntpd up into multiple
> > daemons. Daemons for the core, NTS, clients, etc. Each doing a small job.
> > Rather than the one big daemon we have now.
>
> That sort of split looks good on paper, but I'
Gary said:
>> I'd be happy to split the big header files, ntp.h and ntpd.h, into
>> chunks corresponding to a more modular structure.
> It made sense when using floppy disks to make .h files small. BUt now I find
> it much easier to have large files. So I dont have to 20 keep jumping from
> fil
Gary said:
> I think he is referring to reecent proposals to split ntpd up into multiple
> daemons. Daemons for the core, NTS, clients, etc. Each doing a small job.
> Rather than the one big daemon we have now.
That sort of split looks good on paper, but I'm not sure how well it would
work o
James Browning said:
> The permissions required by NTPsec are a mess partly because it is not a do
> one thing well daemon. Instead, you have the Lernean Hydra, which has too
> many heads and gaining more.
I don't get it. Could you please say more? ntpd needs file permissions for
all the file
