Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/dhcpcd/dist

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:39 +0100, Frank Kardel wrote:
>   
> > I see that dhcpd apparently does the restart dance with ntp. As of ntp 
> > 4.2.4 (already included in NetBSD 4.0) restarting
> > ntp for coping with changed IP-addresses is no longer necessary. ntpd 
> > perfectly understands changed ip addresses on
> > interfaces and re-binds itself (unless running as non-root). Usually it 
> > is better to keep ntpd running as a restart
> > destroys all statistics.
> > may we should consider to avoid restarting ntpd unless it runs as non-root.
> >     
>
> We restart it because the NTP server(s) to use may have changed. I'm
> pretty sure that NTP does not detect this on the fly.
>   
You are right. ntpd does not detect a change in conf files.
> Also we only restart NTP if the generated config file has actually
> changed and if NTP was already running.
>   
I am fine with it if it is a (dhcpd) generated conf file and ntp 
handling can be disabled
in dhcpd (which I believe is possible when I recall previous discussion 
correctly).
> Thanks
>
> Roy
>   
Thanks
 Frank