Re: NTP considered basic

[Thorsten Glaser <tg-2003m_(_at_)_netcologne_(_dot_)_de>]

begin  electrogrammati illius Theo de Raadt

>> I'd like to encourage the OpenBSD developers to move
>> NTP support into the "base" package.
>
>We cannot.  The code is not free enough.

And it's broken. The maintainer does not even _want_ to
speak about leap second support, since he realized that
DJB was the person to remind us of that.

Plus, you can use rdate(8) instead of ntpd{,ate}:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=103203098724291&w=2

//Thorsten
-- 
Willst Du wegen dummer User immer 'Ja, ich will' nach einem rm an /dev/tty
eingeben müssen?		-- Bodo Eggert in de.alt.sysadmin.recovery