ntpd as ntpd user question

[bob prohaska]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:25:59PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 18:54 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> > at sdiff, the learning curve proved very steep. Too steep, in fact.
> > 
> > I'm going to try a more incremental approach.?
> > 
> > Thank you _very_ much!
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> 
> Your reaction to mergemaster is about the same as mine was when I first
> encountered it very long ago, and re-discovered when I tried it a
> couple years ago. It just seems like more trouble than it's worth, I
> can usually figure out what's broken and fix it by hand faster than
> messing with all the merge stuff.
> 
Your suggestion to use vipw seems to have worked. Copied the required
line, ran /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd and installworld ran
without issue.

The machine has now rebooted and ntp has set the clock correctly. 
I don't see ntpd in a ps -aux output.

It's unclear what I need to do next, but at least I'm over the first
hurdle. I'll go back to your earlier email and attempt the rest of the
updates by hand.

Thanks for all your help!

bob prohaska


> But, someone told me that if you give mergemaster the right flags it
> can potentially be intervention-free. Those apparently aren't the flag
> or two that're suggested at the bottom of UPDATING. So I didn't really
> dig into that any deeper, but I toss it out there in case someone can
> expand on it.
> 
> It certainly makes some sense that it could be done intervention-free.
> When doing other diff-based merges (like 'svn update') you only have to
> intervene when there's an actual conflict between some local change
> you've made and the incoming changes.
> 
> -- Ian
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