On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, John Summerfield <debian at 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"