On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Either way, since I have spent a couple of hours before realizing it,
>>> I think it would be beneficial to briefly extend documentation. It may
>>> sound trivial for people familiar enough with "ntp", but for me it was
>>> not. Usually, in networking, servers and clients are different things,
>>> not rarely significantly. You can call me silly or any other way that
>>> you like, but it would have helped me to have a few more words about
>>> the usage of this option.
>>
>> Propose a change to ntpd --help
>
> Apparently you did that yourself:
>
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=3aef814c0b08d9703280b4772060ce5016c683c4
>
> I think there are still at least two issues in the peer documentation:
>
>         -p PEER Obtain time from PEER (may be repeated)
>                 If -p is not given, read /etc/ntp.conf
>
> 1) It does not mention that it aborts if the peer is unavailable, e.g.
> unresolvable hostname.
> 2) It does not mention what the format of /etc/ntp.conf is. It may be
> obvious for you, but for me it is not. I assume it is some standard
> format, but what is the standard? Any reference to it, etc?

It's "standard" ntpd compat. google "man ntp.conf"
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