[ntp:questions] NTP clients

David Lord snews at lordynet.org
Wed Oct 30 01:49:26 UTC 2013


Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2013-10-29, David Lord <snews at lordynet.org> wrote:
> 
>> My systems are running netbsd-6 i386. Stock ntpd is ntp-4.2.6p5,
>> pkgsrc version of ntpd is 4.2.4.
>>
>> My pc with gps/pps has ntp-4.2.7p377 and from that I get
>> "***Command 'mrulist' unknown"
> 
> "mrulist" was added in 4.2.7p22; see http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev
> or search the ntp-dev source code repository at bk.ntp.org
> 
> ntpq prior to 4.2.7p22 does not support "mrulist" ...

so 4.2.7p377 I've used since August is broken?

or do I need to add some options to enable that command?

| associd=0 status=011d leap_none, sync_pps, 1 event, kern,
| version="ntpd 4.2.7p377 at 1.2483-o Tue Jul 30 18:01:47 UTC 2013 (1)",
| processor="i386", system="NetBSD/6.1_STABLE", leap=00, stratum=1,
| precision=-18, rootdelay=0.000, rootdisp=400.195, refid=PPSb,
| reftime=d61ade0d.50cec958  Wed, Oct 30 2013  1:23:25.315,
| clock=d61ade1a.c7c4f3bc  Wed, Oct 30 2013  1:23:38.780, peer=41951, tc=4,
| mintc=3, offset=-0.002, frequency=-36.004, sys_jitter=0.003815,
| clk_jitter=0.002, clk_wander=0.002, tai=35, leapsec=201207010000,
| expire=201312010000

built from source downloaded from www.ntp.org


I've now downloaded ntp-dev-4.2.7p393 but in middle of upgrades
so might be a week or more before it's built/installed.


David


> Here's ntpq from the current stable release:
> 
> me at home:/tmp$ ./ntpq -n -cmrulist
> ***Command `mrulist' unknown
> me at home:/tmp$ ./ntpq -v          
> ./ntpq: illegal option -- v
> ntpq - standard NTP query program - Ver. 4.2.6p5
> USAGE:  ntpq [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... [ host ...]
> 
> Here's ntpq from the current ntp-dev snapshot:
> 
> me at home:/tmp$ which ntpq
> /usr/bin/ntpq
> me at home:/tmp$ ntpq -n -cmrulist
> Ctrl-C will stop MRU retrieval and display partial results.
> Retrieved 9 unique MRU entries and 0 updates.
> lstint avgint rstr r m v  count rport remote address
> ==============================================================================
>    142   1043    0 . 4 4   1095   123 69.64.58.101
>    158   1007    0 . 4 4   1134   123 38.229.71.1
>    745   1033    0 . 4 4   1105   123 199.102.46.73
>    840   1039    0 . 4 4   1098   123 66.225.61.66
>    873   1040    0 . 4 4   1097   123 192.155.88.169
>    887   1003    0 . 4 4   1138   123 166.70.136.35
>    947   1005    0 . 4 4   1136   123 108.61.73.243
>    964   1018    0 . 4 4   1121   123 67.212.118.60
>   1023   1026    0 . 4 4   1112   123 74.120.8.2
> You have new mail in /var/mail/me
> me at home:/tmp$ ntpq -v          
> /usr/bin/ntpq: illegal option -- v
> ntpq - standard NTP query program - Ver. 4.2.7p393
> Usage:  ntpq [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... [ host ...]
> Try 'ntpq --help' for more information.
> 
> exit 1
> me at home:/tmp$
> 



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