[ntp:questions] enable pps not working from ntp.conf

Dennis Golden dgolden at golden-consulting.invalid
Thu Jan 9 17:15:25 UTC 2014


On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:05:04 +0000, Dennis Golden wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:50:30 +0000, Dennis Golden wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:50:21 +0000, William Unruh wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2014-01-08, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
>>>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>>>> On 2014-01-07 09:55, Dennis Golden wrote:
>>>>> > I have searched to find an answer to this problem with no success.
>>>>> > I am using the oncore clock (127.127.30.0) and have included
>>>>> > "enable pps" in ntp.conf, but I get the following in /var/log
>>>>> > messages:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > line 59 column 8 syntax error, unexpected T_String syntax error in
>>>>> > /etc/ntp.conf line 59, column 8
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I can use ntpdc to set this option with no problem.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Any ideas?
>>>>> 
>>>>> enable pps is documented in the miscopt.html command summary lines:
>>>>> 
>>>>> enable [ auth | bclient | calibrate | kernel | monitor | ntp | pps |
>>>>> stats] disable [ auth | bclient | calibrate | kernel | monitor | ntp
>>>>> |
>>>>> pps | stats ]
>>>>
>>>> Not as of 4.2.7p410.
>>> 
>>> But it is as of 4.2.6p5 even though it does not work there.
>>> 
>>> Ie, sometimes the documentation and the progam are not quite in sync.
>>> (not entirely surprizing).
>>> In this case it looks like someone tried to take it out of the docs,
>>> but missed the "|pps|" in the line giving the options of the
>>> enable/disable commands. They did remove the explanation of what this
>>> option means.
>> 
>> But if I use ntpdc:
>> ntpdc> enable pps done!
>> ntpdc> quit
>> 
> <snip>

I give up. I see some of you able to post nicely formatted information. 
What news reader are you using. I'm using pan2.

Dennis
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