Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
>   
>> Without ['tos minsane 1'] 'ntpd -q' will fail to set the clock with a
>> server listing of less than two as it seems the NetBSD default is 'tos
>> minsane 2'.
>>
>> With the docs currently stating that ntpdate is to be retired,
>> attempting to use 'ntpd -q' as an alternative had me stumped for waaay
>> too long :)
>>     
>
> The default ntp.conf supplied with NetBSD lists three servers, as well
> as "tos minsane 2".  Did you reduce the number of servers without also
> changing the minsane value?  If so, what changes in the documentation,
> or in comments in the supplied ntp.conf file, would have saved you from
> that error?
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>   
Sorry, I don't mean to imply the documentation for ntp as such is 
incomplete, it's more the statement that ntpdate is to be retired 
without a functional example of equivelent use, in that, ntpdate will 
use a single server and ntp won't ... and it won't generate an error to 
explain why.

My perspective was more from somebody new attempting to use ntpd as the 
alternative to ntpdate.

Like I said though, just a thought.

Sarton