[ntp:questions] ntp.conf on FreeBSD

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Sun Oct 13 03:51:23 UTC 2013


On 2013-10-12, unruh <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote:

> So you are saying that their ntp.conf is not quite as stupid as some.
> That is good to hear, but does not solve the problem that ntp.conf is
> there for the admin to make changes to in order to solve problems
> peculiar to his system. I may not want the freebsd pool servers--
> because they are bad or because they are too far away. I may want to set
> up 5 (not 2) additional servers, some of which are refclock servers. To
> have to edit an init.d file, whose purpose is to start ntpd, not to
> configure it, is just supid. Somebody on the freebsd distro has no idea
> what he is doing. 

This is not a FreeBSD issue.

FreeNAS provide a GUI for handling the appliance configuration. The
underlying configuration files are automatically (re-)generated after an
edit and at boot time.

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Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/



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