[ntp:questions] logconfig configkeyword , keyword(s0 , where deifned & some heady example(s) .
David Mills
mills at udel.edu
Wed Apr 22 17:53:38 UTC 2009
James,
You should see the notice at the beginning of the online documentation
page. There is a wealth of additional innformation on the public
services web pages. The original author of the option text you found
apparently believed something other than the official syntax. I fixed it.
Dave
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Hello All , I've not done an exhaustive search for examples .
> But ntp.org website is supposed to be the 'Reference' for the
>documentation of ntpd .
> Where is a more verbose description for configuration purposes ?
> Also the logconfig does not like the '='s sign . It does appreciate a ' ' instead .
>
> Tia , JimL
>
>logconfig configkeyword
> This command controls the amount and type of output written to the system
>syslog facility or the alternate logfile log file. All configkeyword keywords
>can be prefixed with =, + and -, where = sets the syslogmask, + adds and -
>removes messages. syslog messages can be controlled in four classes (clock,
>peer, sys and sync). Within these classes four types of messages can be
>controlled: informational messages (info), event messages (events), statistics
>messages (statistics) and status messages (status).
>
> Configuration keywords are formed by concatenating the message class with
>the event class. The all prefix can be used instead of a message class. A
>message class may also be followed by the all keyword to enable/disable all
>messages of the respective message class. By default, logconfig output is set to
>allsync.
>
> Thus, a minimal log configuration could look like this:
>
> logconfig=syncstatus +sysevents
>
> This would just list the synchronizations state of ntpd and the major
>system events. For a simple reference server, the following minimum message
>configuration could be useful:
>
> logconfig=allsync +allclock
>
> This configuration will list all clock information and synchronization
>information. All other events and messages about peers, system events and so on
>is suppressed.
>
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