svn commit: r326095 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts

[Allan Jude]

On 11/23/2017 12:29, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
>> <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>>>>  Also we do provide an ntp.conf so ...
>>>
>>> We do, a template, all commented out, and does not work for
>>> machines behind strong firewalls that wont allow ntp out
>>> to the net but have internal ntp servers that are used for
>>> such things.
>>>
>>> Well maybe not all commented out, I think it defaults to
>>> some public pools.  I believe it would be missing iburst
>>> for use with ntp -pg
>>
>> Does ntpdate work out of the box in such environments?  If so, how?
> 
> ntpdate time.nist.gov
> 
> ntpdate does not need a configureration file, just a command
> line argument.
> 
> 

The point of this thread was which option the installer should use to
implement 'set the correct time on first boot'.

We are not talking about removing ntpdate in this thread.

-- 
Allan Jude