[ntp:hackers] NTP Development Snapshot 4.2.5p208 Released

NTP Public Services Project webmaster at ntp.org
Sun Aug 30 08:31:12 UTC 2009


NTP Development Snapshot 4.2.5p208 is now available for download.

Bug Fixes:

* [Bug 1293] make configuration dumper ready for release, specifically:
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1293

Other Changes:

* require authentication for saveconfig.
* "restrict ... nomodify" prevents saveconfig and :config.
* "saveconfig ." shorthand to save to startup configuration file.
* support strftime() substitution in saveconfig arg to timestamp
  the output filename, for example "saveconfig %Y%m%d-%H%M%S.conf".
* display saveconfig response message from ntpd in ntpq.
* save output filename in "savedconfig" variable, fetched with ntpq -c
  "rv 0 savedconfig".
* document saveconfig in html/ntpq.html.
* add ./configure --disable-saveconfig to build a smaller ntpd.
* log saveconfig failures and successes to syslog.
* rename ntpq dumpcfg command to "saveconfig".

Tarball:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p208.tar.gz 
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p208.tar.gz

MD5 sum:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p208.tar.gz.md5
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p208.tar.gz.md5

Complete ChangeLog:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev

Please report any bugs, issues, or desired enhancements at
http://bugs.ntp.org/.



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