Understood. This is such a trivial bug to reproduce, wanted to get a confirmation b4 filing the bug.. anyways, now filed this:
http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1943 Regards. --- On Sun, 6/12/11, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] why does ntpq return zero even on failures? > To: "Stormy" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Harlan Stenn" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 9:24 PM > > Harlan, > > > > which is why I sent it to bugs list first, however it > was rejected without an > > y explanation with: > > > > "Your request to the bugs mailing list > > > > Posting of your message titled > "ntpq return code upon failures" > > > > has been rejected by the list moderator. The > moderator gave the > > following reason for rejecting your request: > > > > "The best venue for your question is the > comp.protocols.time.ntp > > Usenet newsgroup. > > > > If you don't have NNTP access please use Google Groups > or the > > [email protected] > mailing list (which is gatewayed to the NTP > > newsgroup)." > > I did not see that message from you, so I do not know its > content. > > I was suggesting you open a bug report, which is done from > http://bugs.ntp.org . > > We don't have enough volunteers to take emails to bugs@ and > turn them in > to bug reports. The next problem is we like to have > the "reporter" > of a problem let us know if we've fixed the problem, and > while we can > easily do that with our bugzilla, we do not have a good way > to get that > feedback from email reports. > > H > > --- On Sun, 6/12/11, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > From: Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] why does ntpq return > zero even on failures? > > > To: "Stormy" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 5:29 PM > > > Stormy wrote: > > > > why does ntpq return zero even on failures? > > > > > > > > # ntpq -p abcdefgh > > > > Name or service not known > > > > # echo $? > > > > 0 > > > > > > > > other failures, like timeouts, etc. still > always exit > > > code is zero. > > > > > > Sounds to me like an item for http://bugs.ntp.org . > > > > > > H > > > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
