[Nix-dev] Enable openntpd instead ntp by default

[William Kennington]

Feel free to try enabling timesyncd by simply setting
`services.timesyncd.enable` in your nixos config. It should work as a drop
in replacement and respect the servers set in `services.ntp. servers`.
On Dec 21, 2014 11:47 PM, "Kirill Elagin" <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we are talking about _defaults_, than “no extra packages” is the best
> option, IMHO, and systemd already ships `systemd-timesyncd`, why not use it?
> On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 6:02:03 Anderson Torres <
> torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There exists a "portable" (OS-independent) version of OpenNTPD?
>> Normally, Theo de Raadt makes two versions: the main, official,
>> OpenBSD-tuned version; and the "OS-independent", portable one.
>>
>> Everything being the same, I don't think it is difficult to change
>> from one to other. There are Nix Wiki hints about making services on
>> Nix.
>>
>> Particularly, I would like!
>>
>> 2014-12-21 18:32 GMT-02:00, Paul Colomiets <paul at colomiets.name>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure was it discussed before, but I want to ask if we should
>> > enable openntpd instead of ntpd by default?
>> >
>> > The motivation basically is that openntpd is smaller and more secure
>> > than current default. More details are there:
>> >
>> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/40107/
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Paul
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