Default config file behavior - request for comment

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Sep 20 18:28:32 UTC 2017


Mark Atwood via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> While I like choice #2 for friendlyness, I have to agree re not to hardwire
> the pool name without external consent.

I think the global pool name is a special case here.  Why are they advertising
that service if not to be used in exactly this way?

> Code in choice #1, and if its easy to do, with a big loud warning to stderr
> and logerr that it's doing nothing.

Can be done.
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