Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 03:36:32 -0400 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Add timecounter option to rc.conf Message-ID: <20030408073633.VFPY1699.pop018.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpllyns3cx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <30340.1049663478@critter.freebsd.dk> <xzpllyns3cx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:49:50 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > > I on the other hand think that by now /etc/rc.conf has so many knobs > > and handles that it is practically impossible to figure out how to > > do anything without resorting to "less /etc/rc.*" to figure it out :-( > > 'man rc.conf' should hopefully be reasonably up to date, and > /etc/defaults/rc.conf briefly documents most of the knobs. The main > problem is that there are knobs which aren't listed in either of these > and which I suspect even most committers never knew existed, because > our rc.d scripts were imported wholesale from NetBSD with some but > IMHO not enough adaptation. Differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD > should have been viewed as an opportunity to improve both, but instead > the scripts were "dumbed down" to provide very little beyond what > already existed in FreeBSD. Please check the archives for the reasons. Having said that, more work is forthcomming. > Currently, ntpdate gets its server list from the ntpdate_hosts > variable, or from ntp.conf if ntpdate_hosts is empty. None of this is > documented, because it came from NetBSD with rcNG. Previously, we had > to list servers in ntpdate_flags; I bet a lot of people still do, > unaware that the servers listed in ntp.conf will be appended to this > list. They aren't documented because we don't use them. There are two paths in the rc.d/ntpdate script: one for FreeBSD and one for NetBSD. The FreeBSD path is the same as in the old rc. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - The Power To Serve
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