On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used. It seems weird to me that it isn't.
Nobody forbids you to use that. We are just changing the *default* stuff for the time configuration utility and the *default* config for ntpd.
I think what he means is that if the dhcp server supplies the option for ntp servers, they should be installed and used automatically more or less like dns servers are - unless you have set an option to override with a different setting.
Exactly. At present, the offering is either ignored ... or I've made a goose of myself again.
It shouldn't be ignored out of the box.. my system got an updated ntp but I am not sure if I changed it later. I will have to do a reinstall to make sure... but it looks like its not ignoring.
I don't feel like doing a manual install right now to see what goes on, but I can't find a RH-ish system that isn't using the value offered by my dhcp server. Even on C4.
Thats weird. I need to check my boxes again.
I do think one shouldn't be asked about timezone info by Anaconda if the DHCP server provides it, and I'm sure it still does, but that isn't what I had in mind.
Thats a bit more of a change.. I think it would need to be an upstream change first.