[ntp:questions] New ntp Server

Mark C. Stephens marks at non-stop.com.au
Wed Dec 14 13:08:01 UTC 2011


I only have one BSD box, and that is running PFSense, and fortunately (for me, anyway) I don't have to visit the OS.

I wouldn't have a clue with regards to BSD I am afraid.

So I downloaded the latest slackware and installed it.

I was up running straight away, no issues or bugs apparent.

Kernel source is installed with the distribution and I was able to tailor and recompile the kernel without any hassle whatsoever.

I tried, Scientific, Centos, Fedora and RHEL, they seem to have decided rolling your own kernel is a big fat no-no in all of these RH based dists. Fedora16 was an absolute shocker, just about everything was buggy or not working. Scientific, well is too much hassle to set up, RHEL is just plain annoying, Centos is about the best for me, but hey, I like to make my own kernel with only the bits I need and can't even do that on centos.

Slackware to the rescue :)


Many thanks,
Mark


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Gonçalves [mailto:mail at miguelgoncalves.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 14 December 2011 12:53 AM
To: Mark C. Stephens
Cc: questions at lists.ntp.org
Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] New ntp Server

This is exactly why I prefer FreeBSD.

Isn't this an option for you?

Cheers,
Miguel

On 13/12/2011, at 10:14, "Mark C. Stephens" <marks at non-stop.com.au> wrote:

> I just tried Fedora 16, its quite full of bugs from Anaconda to gnome and everything in between!
> 
> I understand the political reasons for making the full kernel source so obfuscated to install but I wish they would have some mercy on us guys out in userland.
> 
> I may end up installing something like slackware because it doesn't go off the beaten path like the RH based distros.
> 
> 
> Amazing
> 
> Thanks Anyway, Mark.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miroslav Lichvar [mailto:mlichvar at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:41 PM
> To: questions at lists.ntp.org
> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] New ntp Server
> 
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:55:50AM +0000, Mark C. Stephens wrote:
>> Oh no I am quite happy with my hp3325A ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Well Okay, after a slight detour trying to get ilo100 to work, I loaded centos 6.0 x64 on the DL165 G2 (computer) and found it has 3.3V PCI slots. So none of my Serial I/O cards fit, being 5V. I have seen people take a dremel to them to cut a 3.3V notch, but I am not a 100% sure this works. 
>> 
>> Centos 6.0 is really impressive I have to say. Also the PPS kernel module is already built and installed, just need to load it.
> 
> The kernel includes general PPS support, but there is no support for PPS on serial devices (pps_ldisc module). You'll probably need to use a newer version of kernel or backport the module to the old version.
> You'll also need to recompile the ntp package with the timepps.h header.
> 
> It might be easier to try a newer distro. For instance, Fedora 14 and later have kernel, ntp and chrony packages compiled with PPS support and it should work out of the box, even with SELinux enabled :).
> 
> --
> Miroslav Lichvar
> 
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