Joseph Gwinn wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Martin Burnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Joe,
>>
>> Joseph Gwinn wrote:
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> "Peter J. Cherny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joseph Gwinn wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Which brings me to a question: How does one get NTP to tell you
>>>>> exactly where it is getting such things as the ntp.conf file from, all
>>>>> without
>>>> >...
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/ntpd|grep ntp.conf
>>>> /etc/ntp.conf
>>> In the RHEL case, this would find exactly the wrong copy of ntp.conf,
>>> being the one we were changing to no avail, not the one that NTP was in
>>> fact using.
>>>
>>>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ strace -f -o x /usr/sbin/ntpd -g
>>> I'll have to look into this. It sounds like it might be general enough.
>>>
>>>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ntp.conf x
>>>> 3351 open("/etc/ntp.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
>>> Doesn't this assume that the correct "ntp.conf" file is called ntp.conf?
>>> It may be common, the standard convention, but it is not required.
>>>
>>> The whole point is to find the correct file without making assumptions,
>>> because on a strange computer strange things may have been done.
>> I fully agree.
>>
>> Ntpd generates a bunch of messages about what it has found in the config
>> file, at least in debug mode.
>>
>> Maybe you should open an enhancement request on http://bugs.ntp.org to make
>> ntpd also print the name of the config file it is using, maybe only in
>> debug mode.
>
> I'm surprised that it doesn't already print the full filename of every
> file it uses.
>
> Will debug mode do much if the binary wasn't compiled for debug? I'm
> trying to use the provided binary, whatever it might be, and recompiling
> is usually far too much trouble to be practical. Especially as the
> effort is per platform type, and we have multiple types.
>
> I will file an enhancement request. However, my feeling is that this
> function would be most useful if added to ntpq, and yielded the full
> filename including directories, as there may be multiple "ntp.conf"
> files scattered about. The key is to get NTP to tell us which file NTP
> is using, without interference from our firmly held but sadly mistaken
> assumptions about what NTP ought to be doing.
>
> Joe Gwinn
Since the source to NTPD is available, it's a SMOP to modify it to print
out the desired file specification!
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