-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Replying to message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ntpdate is being deprecated. > > Why would you want to use a cron job when you could just run ntpd? > > Please see http://ntp.isc.org/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate > All right, here is my setup. I use a 486-SX box (sans FPU) with NetBSD/i386 as a way to SSH against a NetBSD/macppc machine, which provides an awful console. The ntpd on the 486-SX doesn't seem to like a kernel that doesn't support, at a minimum, the fsqrt() function. See the thread called "ntpd 4.2.4 crash on NetBSD/i386" from about a month ago. Now, The kernel sources for NetBSD/i386 don't provide an emulation for fsqrt(), and I'm not a kernel programmer. Therefore, I can't fix this kernel issue, and the nice NetBSD people have better things to do than implement obsolete emulations anyway. So, ntpd cannot run on my 486-SX. I decided to instead run ntpdate from a cron job and periodically sync the box to the ntpd running on the macppc. So there. Now laugh if you must, but I like my 486-SX ;-) - -- Pierre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkYK2xAACgkQaMA1iJ2qYmKAbQCfWyZeU6vuOP2EieMxY+T8k7Wk tpwAn1HKBlfwbPQ4Nyl8YeSzKSdqHgDf =NYEW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
