On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Tom Metro wrote:

> Nice to see a batch of wiki edits this weekend by shyde and jeckyll
> (funny how people seem to use their real names on the list, but their
> favorite handle on the wiki).

Hello! that'd be me! Er...the jeckyll account is a dead account that I 
originally created when i didn't realise that wikispaces displayed 
"usernames" of users, rather than offering a display/real name. I shoudl 
have used the shyde account, which I switched to after creating the page.

> jeckyll added the page:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/startup.squares
>
> that covers what happens during the bootup sequence when mvpmc is
> printing the boot progress meeter on the screen. Nice detailed write up.
>
> It would be good if you added a paragraph explaining how you determined
> this, and linking to relevant source file in the repository, so when the
> code changes it'll be easier for the next person to find the correct
> behavior and update the wiki.

Done...

> It would also make sense to cross link (or merge) with the existing page
> on the boot sequence:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/boot

Yes, it would...Done

> shyde updated:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/timeserver
>
> to indicate that when setting the time server via the web interface it
> only had to be an rdate compliant server in versions prior to 0.3.5,
> implying that the code has been patched to use NTP. How about clarifying
> that? Can you use either type of server now? NTP only? Mentioning the
> date at which the patch was first incorporated into the nightly builds
> would be good.

Yep, it now does NTP, er, as of commit 
b7e51f64df3c9f0da81031c5a2a5bec079397897, on the 6th of March.

>
> shyde also changed:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/dongle.config
> > rdate -s 192.168.1.42
> to
> > export NTP=192.168.1.42
>
> I don't think the export does anything useful there. The script is
> sourced by rcS and thus runs in the same shell context. I also don't
> think there are any child processes that would make use of that variable
> from the environment.

Indeed, I never got around to changing that back after realising that 
myself, at the same time it does no harm.

>
> In other matters, it looks like we have two pages that cover largely the
> same information:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/dongle.config
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/mvpmc.config

Yes, I noticed this whilst trying to irradicate all references to rdate 
from them.

> Any objections if I merge these? (One page can be set to redirect to the
> other.)

Nope...sounds sensible to me.

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