From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5069113877A for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9D56E0DBA; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D41EE0D84 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id m15so5516522wgh.15 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:14:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E8+Xkq0Dymod9pn2B4bJr+kmO/IYKEOE9Z4bV7vvZwg=; b=CdiqtEtf85/7LjmooLH3EfzB2US2MLaD11vA1fOHtbnVQ9FYCIBlk8KsstM8fjbL2c XaPUz1v3pSWqUfqjkW54BCThK1HmllgPj8JR2LrzU/E+xiUj05owsB89BEqwIOoNj/1L 9fFJl6iiTXxQduTclSVoSXKC5mUQzMPuaJs40JmXUqf5r39IX4uIzzZCIJ5uPKfBBO3l RUZIV9WgsoMvFf8b0RtJvk87fLboVs3mvAHnrdEdaMnVdcwbk6X9JEiMYbNPx5XppF25 +2D2K69BQqHXE4u2bjHToU01TQ1RcHTMr9Dd+NEcP3mZuzD6nxAvIAhYjccVapWHuIc3 oNEw== X-Received: by 10.194.142.148 with SMTP id rw20mr31673058wjb.69.1406398446125; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (213-154-212-42.static.vega-ua.net. [213.154.212.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id lh15sm9951400wic.10.2014.07.26.11.14.05 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53D3EFEC.1060100@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:14:04 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use? References: <53D39983.8050706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ceb55818-14c6-482c-8a83-4858426eb265 X-Archives-Hash: 7b7bb60e1188c6c0f2939b70ec45984e On 07/26/2014 03:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or >> some other package? > chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated, > unnecessarily hard to setup correctly, fragile and contrary to > popular belief not even that accurate, unless you use external > HW clocks. Chrony is maintained by Red Hat in cooperation with the > timekeeping code in the kernel. > >> openntpd seems to be easier to set up according to wiki.gentoo.org. > Many many years ago I helped port openntpd to Linux. It was OK-ish at > the time and easier/less hassle than ntpd, but the portable version for > Linux stopped working reliably many years ago due to kernel changes. > IMHO it really should no longer be in the tree since it gives a false > sense of accuracy. > > just my 0.01€.. > > -h > > Is this gentoo wiki article still relevant when it comes to configuring chrony on gentoo? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Chrony Or should I stick to the instructions given here: /usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.txt.bz2 Thanks.