[ntp:questions] ntp documentation

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Sun Jan 6 19:19:20 UTC 2008


Unrug,

Please read the first paragraph on documentation home page. It will tell 
you why there is no man page for the ntp.conf file. Now try the 
Configuration Command and Options collection.

Dave

Unruh wrote:

> "Dennis Hilberg, Jr." <timekeeper at dennishilberg.com.invalid> writes:
> 
> 
>>Unruh wrote:
>>
>>>"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Unruh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Where is there ntp documentation? For example I wanted to have ntp write
>>>>>out the statistics  on its peers etc. I looked everywhere-- man page of
>>>>>ntp, ntp.conf, etc, and finally discovered by looking at the source that
>>>>>there seem to be a huge bunch of undocumented options. 
>>>>>Or are they documented somewhere in that filing cabinette down some broken
>>>>>steps in a flooded basement, behind a door labeled "Beware of Tigers"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>You'll find the secret staircase at ntp.org.  The humidity may be a 
>>>>little high in the basement but it's not actually wet.  ;-)
>>>
>>>>This snippet from my ntp.conf might help:
>>>
>>>>logfile /var/ntp/ntp.log
>>>>statsdir /var/ntp/ntpstats/
>>>>statistics peerstats clockstats
>>>>filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
>>>>filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
>>>
>>>But where did you find those options? for example I finally did 
>>>statistics peerstats
>>>and the system set up a daily and total couple of files in /var/log/ntp (
>>>my statsdir) 
>>>What does filegen do and mean? Do I need it? I should have some docs where
>>>I can easily find that. Does it exist?
> 
> 
>>Those are explained on the "Monitoring Options" page, here: 
>>http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/monopt.html
> 
> 
> Ah. Finally. Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for and
> could not find. Thanks. Those configuration pages should all be in the
> ntp.conf man page, instead of only some of them.
> 
> 
> 
>>You might try using the site map for the docs.  It was recently added (I 
>>think) and is a lot of help. 
>>http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/sitemap.html
> 
> 
>>-- 
>>Dennis Hilberg, Jr.      timekeeper(at)dennishilberg(dot)com
>>NTP Server Information:  http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/ntp.php




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