Yo Eric! On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:16:17 -0400 (EDT) [email protected] (Eric S. Raymond) wrote:
> We have an open issue #204 on the tracker: Support /etc/ntp.d
Good to fix pre 1.0
> 4. Here's the tricky part. Not every file is interpreted by every
> program. Initially, only files with the extensions ".ntpd" and
> ".refclockd" are interpreted by ntpd. Other files are skipped.
I was OK until you got here. I'm not a fan of encoding much in
filenames. I would put things in sections, which could be in any order
in any of the parsed file. Like this:
[global]
# options common to ntpd and refclockd could go here
statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/
[ntpd]
# options unique to ntpd go here
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
logfile /var/log/ntpd.log
[refclock]
# options unique to refclocks go here
server 127.127.28.1 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4
fudge 127.127.28.1 time1 0.001500 refid PPS
For compatibility maybe anything not in one of those three sections
is taken either as glocal, or legacy.
> 5. The "other files are skipped" is a convenience for configurators,
> which can use file renames to enable and disable configuration
> snippets while leaving the file conyent of snippets untouched.
Hmm, without the extentions this is harder. Maybe the all end in
.ntp, or must start with a number? Then README gets skipped.
RGDS
GARY
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