[ntp:questions] Re: -M ntpd Option

Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl at RZ.Uni-Regensburg.DE
Wed Jun 28 09:55:19 UTC 2006


Heiko Gerstung <heiko.gerstung_removeme_ at meinberg.de> writes:

> Charles Elliott schrieb:
> > When the installer installed nptd on my Win XP SP2 machine as a service it
> > added the -M option.  I cannot find where this option is documented.  Does
> > anyone know what it does?
> > Charles Elliott
> 
> This switch has been added by my colleague, Martin Burnicki, and is only
> available in our ports of the ntpd for Windows. The necessary additions to
> the

So to memorize, "-M" is the "Martin" switch ;-)

As we will probable run out of letters soon, why not use an other scheme for
setting options like "-o option_name[=option_value]" (brackets grouping
optional parts). I think sshd has something like that for example.
Readability would also improve iff options have useful names.

Regards,
Ulrich




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