Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-29 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: [I said about ntpd usage of sched_* functions:] We should make them standard IMO. According to John Polstra: I agree. BTW, as the sched_* POSIX functions are now standard in GENERIC, I've decided along with the upgrade

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
[I said about ntpd usage of sched_* functions:] We should make them standard IMO. According to John Polstra: I agree. BTW, as the sched_* POSIX functions are now standard in GENERIC, I've decided along with the upgrade to ntpd 4.0.99b to re-enable them. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
That sucks severely - NONE of the common units have the PPS output?! Barf. Oh well. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web: http://childrens-justice.org Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first? See the above URL for a plan to do exactly that! On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:42:24PM

RE: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread David Schwartz
That sucks severely - NONE of the common units have the PPS output?! Barf. Oh well. Many of them do, but it's still not meant for precision timekeeping and the exact relationship between its PPS pulse edges and UTC's second boundaries may not be precisely specified. It's not a good

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : I will (as always) recommend the Motorola Oncore UT+. If you buy it We've also had excellent luck with the OEM version of the Oncore that we embed in our products. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 02:33:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : That's EXPENSIVE. Worth every penny. We've seen sub-micro second syncronization with our unit on good hardware, and 1-2us on the 486 based hardware. : Common handheld GPS

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge? For the Motorola name? Sorry, the Batwing Menace to employee's rights was long ago placed on my "do not buy, do not recommend, actively boycott" list. Well, suit your own political

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge? Because we need a PPS that is 10nS from the true start of second for our application? 1uS is really really bad for the timing geeks in the audience. Warner To Unsubscribe: send

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:32:00PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge? Because we need a PPS that is 10nS from the true start of second for our application? 1uS is really really bad for

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:17:00PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge? For the Motorola name? Sorry, the Batwing Menace to employee's rights was long ago placed on my "do not

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:42:24PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : And on what hardware do you think you can obtain 10ns resolution RELIABLY : at the software level in the Unix environment and under FreeBSD? : : Answer: NONE! WRONG. :

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:17:00PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge? Well, suit your own political manifests as you will, but

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : Yes, you have HARDWARE timers that do that. : : So what? : : I'm talking about TIME SERVERS on UNIX machines. So am I. : You know, ntpd and friends? Yes, that. That's one of the things in our application. : Now explain to me how

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl Denninger writes: : Yes, you have HARDWARE timers that do that. : : So what? : : I'm talking about TIME SERVERS on UNIX machines. So am I. : You know, ntpd and friends? Yes, that.

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 04:53:55PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: ..snip.. If you intend to keep up this "sour grapes" attitude, despite all the helpful answers you have gotten so far, you should consider stopping before you

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: If you intend to keep up this "sour grapes" attitude, despite all the helpful answers you have gotten so far, you should consider stopping before you have worn out your welcome. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:13:10PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 04:53:55PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: ..snip.. If you intend to keep up this "sour grapes" attitude, despite all the helpful

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:17:59PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: If you intend to keep up this "sour grapes" attitude, despite all the helpful answers you have gotten so far, you should consider stopping before you have worn out your welcome.

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: Why the hell Walnut Creek wastes their money on your type REMAINS beyond my comprehension. It really hasn't been a problem for anyone but you. It's more successful, then say, alternative top level domain projects that have gone nowhere. -- - bill

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:37:31PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: How many millions does Paol have to count in HIS bank as a result of this shilling and "advocacy"? SOME OF US have *REAL* successes to point to - not just bullshit pats on the

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread Warner Losh
Karl, I was my hands of this conversation. You aren't listening. We have custom hardware. We're a control and measurement system. The 10ns is needed for that control and measurement part. The sync we get of the system clock, like I said before, is on the order of a few hundred ns on pentium

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:08:31PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: As for whoever the person is who force-removed me from the list, trust me on this - I won't forget that act, and until you're identified and permanently removed from both the list and the entire project you'll have no

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:44:57PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: sarcasm We can point to the Internet's evolution of these "treehouse" organizations and show off how PROUD we are of them and those who support them. Let's start a nice short list, shall we? Network Solutions. ARIN.

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ollivier Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to John Polstra: Current versions of ntpd use these features if they're available. I The ntpd daemon in -CURRENT doesn't use these as we cannot be sure the user has enabled them. I don't understand why

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does (someone) need to do to get this changed out/updated? I can't send it in as a port, since its part of the base package (setting it up as a port would be pretty trivial from what I can see) There already _is_ a

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest from the official site last night and by this morning the dispersion and offsets were stable. BTW, you might want to add these lines (from LINT) to

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does (someone) need to do to get this changed out/updated? I can't send it in as a port, since its part of the base package (setting it up as a

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of STEP changes instead of what you SHOULD get, which is a slew

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Karl Denninger: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Part of 3.4-R yes. I removed xntpd (3.4e) from current a month ago and put ntpd (4.0.98f, soon to be 4.1.0) in its place. What does (someone) need to do to get this changed out/updated? I can't send it in as a port,

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of STEP changes instead of what you SHOULD get, which is a slew on the system clock. Remember to get the kernel code involved. To do

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of STEP

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest from the official site last night and by this morning the dispersion and offsets were stable.

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:17:15AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest from the official site last

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:15:13AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE!

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: options "P1003_1B" options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" Current versions of ntpd use these features if they're available. I think "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" is the default, so

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:31:25AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: Yes, and my driftfile had that parameter in there. Uhm, Poul, remember I've been at this for just a LITTLE while. Xntpd is something I had deployed back in my *Sun* days

xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

1999-12-31 Thread Karl Denninger
This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of STEP changes instead of what you SHOULD get, which is a slew on the system clock. The new code (which has a current release date of this month) DOES appear to work correctly (I'm still