Re: What is this sm-mta?

On 02/12/2022 09:27, Olivier Certner wrote:
>> According to the documentation "NONE" is deprecated.
> 
> Yes... but no.
> 
> There was a recent discussion here:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36950
> 
> mostly obsoleted by these commits:
> d88828148d893e3d7c747f9331187ec6e44f26bd
> 0b1adc42a15caea0cffbc962ca6f9e3e7b576834
> 
> So the deprecation has been removed (although this has not been MFCed, so the 
> documentation in current stable branches still marks it as deprecated).
> 

Deprecation in FreeBSD is an interesting thing. ntpdate has been
deprecated for ages (10 years? 20 years?). man ntpdate says it will be
deleted and talks about ntpd -q, man ntpd says ntpdate will be replaced
by a shell script. I've had ntpdate_enable="TRUE" in my rc.conf forever
and run chronyd rather than ntpd.

The way the world is now we ought to have a roughtime implementation to
replace ntpdate. I'd write or import one but don't have the time or the
crypto knowledge to do it right.

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