options - Re: ntp server

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya zenaan

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> > >   authenticate no
> 
> On restarting the ntp server on my server, with the above line in
> ntp.conf, I get the following in /var/log/xntpd:
> 
> 24 Jun 16:09:08 ntpd[6593]: configure: keyword "authenticate" unknown,
> line ignored

congrats you found a (unknown options) bug in ntp-simple if it's
supposed to replace xntpd

guess one other questions should have been are you running xntpd or
some other clone :-0

> Replaces: xntp, xntp3, ntp (<= 1:4.1.0-2)

almost replaces :-)

>  /etc/cron.daily/ntp-server e51cbea9bc3637dd3fb829b0f862fc93
>  /etc/cron.weekly/ntp-server 4ab60269a1940b66e991941e344841b2
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

things running out of cron seems to defeat xntp function/features
which is a standalone daemon ...

if you are gonna run time services from cron, you can do that
almost hundred different ways ( well couple dozen )
 
c ya
alvin