ntpd configutration -- a small suggestion from the peanut gallery

[RW]

On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:57:01 +0200
Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, at 18:14, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 08:40:51 +0200 (CEST)
> > Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> >   
> > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 23:18-0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> > >   
> > > > I feel sure that I'll be able to figure out how to get ntpd
> > > > properly enabled & configured, but I would just like to offer,
> > > > hunbly, to the Powers That Be, that it would be Nice if ntpd,
> > > > once enabled during install, just worked, you know, right outta
> > > > the box.    
> > > 
> > > Adding
> > > 
> > > ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
> > > 
> > > to /etc/rc.conf is one way.   
> > 
> > Perhaps it should be the default.   
> 
> It is in CURRENT[1] & would be worth MFC although possibly too late
> for 11.3R.

That affects the istaller, but it's still off in defaults/rc.conf.