James, You should see the notice at the beginning of the online documentation page. There is a wealth of additional innformation on the public services web pages. The original author of the option text you found apparently believed something other than the official syntax. I fixed it.
Dave Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All , I've not done an exhaustive search for examples . > But ntp.org website is supposed to be the 'Reference' for the >documentation of ntpd . > Where is a more verbose description for configuration purposes ? > Also the logconfig does not like the '='s sign . It does appreciate a > ' ' instead . > > Tia , JimL > >logconfig configkeyword > This command controls the amount and type of output written to the system >syslog facility or the alternate logfile log file. All configkeyword keywords >can be prefixed with =, + and -, where = sets the syslogmask, + adds and - >removes messages. syslog messages can be controlled in four classes (clock, >peer, sys and sync). Within these classes four types of messages can be >controlled: informational messages (info), event messages (events), statistics >messages (statistics) and status messages (status). > > Configuration keywords are formed by concatenating the message class with >the event class. The all prefix can be used instead of a message class. A >message class may also be followed by the all keyword to enable/disable all >messages of the respective message class. By default, logconfig output is set >to >allsync. > > Thus, a minimal log configuration could look like this: > > logconfig=syncstatus +sysevents > > This would just list the synchronizations state of ntpd and the major >system events. For a simple reference server, the following minimum message >configuration could be useful: > > logconfig=allsync +allclock > > This configuration will list all clock information and > synchronization >information. All other events and messages about peers, system events and so >on >is suppressed. > > -- >+------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | >| Network&System Engineer | 2133 McCullam Ave | Give me Linux | >| [email protected] | Fairbanks, AK. 99701 | only on AXP | >+------------------------------------------------------------------+ >_______________________________________________ >questions mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
