Re: UUCP & Usenet (was Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST))

2003-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In the beginning systems were isolated. There was no net. Then UUCP > > brought light unto the darkness. This was called USENET and we saw > > > > I thought that "Unix-Unix cp" was for, well, copying files, of which > Usenet files were only a sub

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul Condon writes: > Chrony ins a wrapper around ntp... No. Chrony is an independent implementation of the NTP protocol. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > Let me hazard a guess that chrony is not a full implementation Chrony provides complete time service. Ntpd does do things that Chrony doesn't but they are things like supporting atomic clock hardware and providing obscure encryption schemes. As mentioned elsewhere in this th

UUCP & Usenet (was Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST))

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone summarize the different ntp packages? > > In the beginning systems were isolated. There was no net. Then UUCP > brought light unto the darkness. This was called USENET and we saw I thought that "U

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone summarize the different ntp packages? In the beginning systems were isolated. There was no net. Then UUCP brought light unto the darkness. This was called USENET and we saw that it was good. [It is a unix list so I am not mentioning fidonet.] These isol

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:13:45PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone summarize the different ntp packages? > > For example what to run on a server vs. on an internal NAT'ed > workstation. > I use chrony on all my machines. One machine is my access to the net. It points to the ext

NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-05 Thread moseley
Can someone summarize the different ntp packages? For example what to run on a server vs. on an internal NAT'ed workstation. Or what is best for a dialup ADSL connection vs. full-time connection. Do all packages provied a daemon? I'm using both chrony and ntp on various machines, and it s