On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:08:28PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 
> > > I've wondered every now and then about the reason for having the pid
> > > file on the command line, and now this.  
> > ..
> > > I know this is easy to override, but am curious for the reasoning...
> > 
> > Well, the main thing instigating this was that Thor and I discovered
> > today that xntpd won't use the kernel PLL support unless you specify a
> > driftfile.
> > 
> > As we don't ship a default ntp.conf file, putting these options on the
> > command line makes it more likely that the "right thing" will happen.
> > moreover, with xntpd -m or xntpd -b for multicast/broadcast NTP, you
> > don't need to configure any peers so you can do all the configuration
> > on the command line.

But would it not be even easier to have a simple default ntp.conf
with commented-out examples for simple configurations (as well as
{pidfile,driftfile}) like broadcast mode?


-- 
Soren