"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Unruh wrote:
>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

>filegen creates a new file daily or weekly or monthly. . . .
>These files can eat many megabytes of disk space if you let them.  If 
>you're not prepared to analyze and summarize all the data, do yourself a 
>favor and skip creating the files.  The tools to do so are included in 
>the ntpd distribution but you do have to find them, and use them and 
>then clean up the obsolete files. . . .


OK, I guess daily is the default if you just use the 
statistics peerstats
But the key question is where in the world is the documentation for all of
this?



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