There is one thing I really miss in OpenBSD's ntpd, and that is

some way of asking the status. It need not be something like

ntpq for "standard" ntpd. Sending it e.g SIGUSR1 so it would

dump current servers, their status and ntpd's general status

would be nice.
When there is nothing for a while in the syslogs it gets

tedious to find out if and what is going on with ntpd on OpenBSD...
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:52:46PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote:

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> Darrin Chandler wrote:

> >On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:49:57AM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:

> >

> >>On 10/23/07, Boris Goldberg  wrote:

> >>

> >>>  The  ntpd  from  OBSD  is  raw  and lame yet. It takes days (!) to

> >>>  really

> >>>synchronize, adjusting time and clock frequency back and forth (even if

> >>>you

> >>>start  with  -s) so it's too early to say that using it is "right". It

> >>>will

> >>>be "right" after it matures, gets more useful synchronization algorithm

> >>>and

> >>>it's own ntpdate (or a parameter to synchronize and exit).

> >>>

> >>Blah blah blah.

> >>

> >>time1 and time2.srv.ualberta.ca are both running openntpd driven by

> >>nmea(4) sensors. As is my home workstation. They wibble around within

> >>a microsecond or two of the sensor's time, probably due to a)

> >>interrupt handling and b) temperature changes caused by the air

> >>conditioner or cats sleeping on the case.

> >>

> >

> >And my servers are in a windowless room under a lot of concrete and

> >steel, so there's no good way to get GPS or radio data, and I'm using

> >other time servers on the internet to sync.

> >

> >They keep time very well, on sparc64 and amd64, and both are in

> >pool.ntp.org and score quite well. In fact, they compare favorably to

> >servers running the more "heavyweight" ntp daemons.

> >

>

> That is a very interesting anecdote. That has got to make Henning proud;

> hell I'm proud of him. The amazing thing is that the ntpd binary on my

> i386 is only 34.4K. The ntpd binary (non-OpenNTPD) on my i386 FreeBSD

> media center is 263K, not to mention all of the other ntp* binaries,

> which bring total size to 426K. Plus, OpenNTPD has privilege separation!

-- 
/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB