[ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread NTP Public Services Project
Redwood City, CA - 2009/10/30 - The NTP Public Services Project (http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.5p239-RC, a Release Candidate of the NTP Reference Implementation from the NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread David Woolley
Could I suggest limiting release candidates to one a week. Very few people will have time to deal with them in less than about a week. I'd deduce from the large number of recent release candidates that the code is actually some way from being ready to release.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Hart
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:54 AM, David Woolley wrote: Could I suggest limiting release candidates to one a week. Please, suggest away :) Very few people will have time to deal with them in less than about a week. Such folks should pick up the latest RC once a week, then. Meanwhile, those

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
David Woolley wrote: Could I suggest limiting release candidates to one a week. Very few people will have time to deal with them in less than about a week. I'd deduce from the large number of recent release candidates that the code is actually some way from being ready to release. Gee!!

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:hce9je$n4...@news.eternal-september.org... Could I suggest limiting release candidates to one a week. Very few people will have time to deal with them in less than about a week. I'd deduce from the large number of recent

Re: [ntp:questions] Running two ntpd systems in parallel

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Fleischer
2009/10/17 Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Paul Fleischer p...@xpg.dk wrote: I would like to see ntpd support unprivileged operation for testing purposes, including using a local port 1024.  The approach I have been considering is adding a port option to the

[ntp:questions] reference Clock drivers kernel or user space

2009-10-30 Thread Raptor Victor
Hi I need some pointers regarding the reference clock drivers. I need to know if these drivers are implemented in user space or kernel space. I at least know from documentation that how ntp adjusts clock is in kernel space to carry out clock tinkering in a quick fashion. However, are the refclock

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-10-30, David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: I'd deduce from the large number of recent release candidates that the code is actually some way from being ready to release. You may wish to view the actual diffs between the Release Candidates instead of merely speculating.

Re: [ntp:questions] reference Clock drivers kernel or user space

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Hart
Reference clock drivers are compiled into ntpd and run in the ntpd process, in user mode, though typically with root privileges. See ntpd/refclock_*.c in the distribution. Cheers, Dave Hart ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
David J Taylor wrote: perhaps those who don't want to keep them can use the Delete key? ^W ^W Kill File -- E-Mail Sent to this address blackl...@anitech-systems.com will be added to the BlackLists. ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread David J Taylor
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists n...@blacklist.anitech-systems.invalid wrote in message news:hcf9cc$24...@news.eternal-september.org... David J Taylor wrote: perhaps those who don't want to keep them can use the Delete key? ^W ^W Kill File Or whatever. Some

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p239-RC Released

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-10-30, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk. wrote: Some get NNTP messages, others e-mail from the portal. The release announcement routing is: announce@ mailing list - questions@ mailing list - news-group -- Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org NTP Public Services Project -

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP absolute accuracy?

2009-10-30 Thread Unruh
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Juyong Do wrote: Hi, Does anyone know any survey or paper measuring absolute time accuracy over NTP? I saw statistics about offsets, RTT, and dispersion but am not sure how well those parameters reflect or are correlated with absolute

[ntp:questions] Small cheap low power systems

2009-10-30 Thread Hal Murray
Or one could get a plug computer like http://www.tonidoplug.com and use a GPS over USB, which works quite well as David proved. I myself am tempted at one such plug computer just for the geek factor! :-) Thanks. $99 makes it interesting. I poked around a bit but did't find what I'm looking