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

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On 2017-11-24 17:46, Allan Jude wrote:
> 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'.

  The main point yes.
  I guess that I'll revert my commit and open a review which removes 
ntpd_sync_on_start and always add -g to rc_flags and people could 
argument there.

> We are not talking about removing ntpdate in this thread.

  Well, after Ian said that it was deprecated I ask if we should remove 
it to be honest.

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>