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" _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
