Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO

[Frank Nicholas]

> On May 5, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Frank <address@hidden>:
>> dhcpcd will “merge” DHCP supplied NTP servers at the bottom of a ntp.conf.  
>> This has not caused me any issues (on Gentoo).  NTP generally does the 
>> “right” things and uses all the NTP servers in the config & will decide the 
>> local server, with PPS is the best.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this comment. Are you saying that a dhcpd hpook
> modifies /etc/ntp.conf?
> -- 
>               <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

Correct - it adds the DHCP supplied NTP servers to the bottom of the existing 
“/etc/ntp.conf” file (surrounded by comments).

NTP (on my systems) functions ok & will just use the additional NTP servers.  
It will decide that the local server (GPS w/PPS) is the best & use it.  No harm 
done.

Thanks,
Frank