On 2010-02-20, Jaiprabhu <jaipra...@somewhere.in.this.world> wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: >> >> ntpd already provides a trap mechanism for sending out event >> information. There is an implementation of a trap client in the >> ./scripts directory of the distribution. > > The trap utility would not be very usable for me. For one thing we do > not have perl on the systems we are working with.
That's a bit defeatist, don't you think? Why not look at the perl trap client provided in the scripts directory as a prototype for implementing a trap client in a language available on yout target systems. > Secondly, and please correct me if I am wrong, I am not sure that it > actually generates a trap for a sync lost kind of event. You should test the trap system to see what information it provides and if that information is what you need. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
