kclient version 2 [PSARC/2007/401 FastTrack timeout 07/13/2007]

[Michael Hunter]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:30:00 +0200
Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> Michael Hunter wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:11:59 +0200
> > Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > > James Carlson wrote:
> > > > Wyllys Ingersoll writes:
> > > > > -t: configure a simple broadcast/multicast NTP client
[...]
> > How would you expect different NTP administrative mechanisms to
> > arbitrate control of the NTP configuration? 
> 
> Erm... what do you mean ?
[...]

When there are multiple paths to configure a service who wins?  The GUI
is used to configure NTP, then kclient is used to also configure it at
a different time, and finally something picks up a value from DHCP that
its been told to use to configure NTP with. Something stops working or
worse yet security assumptions are silently overriden.  If there is
just one admin this is just painful and you can almost blame it on user
error. If there are two or more its maddening and its entirely our
fault for having created the mess in the first place.

			mph