[ntp:questions] SIGINFO for Portable OpenNTP on Linux

RedGrittyBrick RedGrittyBrick at spamweary.invalid
Fri Sep 4 14:03:19 UTC 2009


Maarten Wiltink wrote:
> "RedGrittyBrick" <RedGrittyBrick at spamweary.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4aa0e178$0$2541$da0feed9 at news.zen.co.uk...
> 
>> I'm using OpenNTP 3.9p1 (http://www.openntpd.org/) on an RedHat 8 Linux
>> server.
> 
> Oh great. Now you'll get a hundred people telling you that OpenNTP is
> Not Real NTP.

Oh dear.


>> The docs at http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd say
>>    When ntpd receives a SIGINFO signal, it writes its peer and sensor
>>    status to syslog(3).
> 
> Is this the man page for (reference) NTP or does it apply to OpenNTP?

It is the man page referred to by the Openntp web site.


>> However SIGINFO isn't defined on Linux.
>>
>> Has this feature been removed from the Portable version of OpenNTP or
>> is there some other signal I can send, or some other way to get peer
>> status (hopefully similar to ntpq -p on xntpd) to monitor convergence
>> etc.
> 
> According to Wikipedia, SIGINFO is 'a synonym for' SIGPWR on Linux.
> You might try that instead.

Thanks

> Presumably this would be somewhat easy to find in the source.
> 

I had looked, there's a couple of sighndlr routines that don't mention 
any signals other than TERM, INT and HUP. My C skills are limited so I 
thought it possible I'd missed something.

-- 
RGB




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