On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:11:26 -0400, Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: > Where is the most authoritative and up to date NTP documentation? > > Here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html > Or Here: http://doc.ntp.org/
The ~mills/ URL points to the current "dev" version of the documentation, as edited by Dr. Mills from time to time. Thus, it's a work-in-progress, but should mostly match the current "dev" branch of ntp. As already mentioned on this thread, each release of NTP includes documentation for that particular release; you can find copies of the stable-release versions of those docs in the archive at http://doc.ntp.org/ , and also most NTP installations will include a local copy of the doc files. (For some "packaged" version of ntp the documentation comes in a separate package, so for example under under Debian/Ubuntu you would need to install the "ntp-doc" package, and then you'd find the doc files installed in /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/ .) As others have mentioned, normally you'll want to be looking at the version of the docs that correspond to the version of NTP that you are running (so that you aren't seeing descriptions of features that aren't available in your version, etc.). But note that sometimes documentation fixes are made within a stable release series, so you may find it's helpful to look forward to a newer version of the docs even if you don't upgrade your ntp binary. (As one example of what I mean, compare the table of the "peers" section in http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6/ntpq.html#pe to http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p1/ntpq.html#pe , where the updated description applies just as well to 4.2.6 as to later versions of the ntpq command.) And sometimes you can learn a bit about why NTP behaves as it does by comparing the description of a particular feature in earlier and later versions of the documentation (to see how things have changed over time). It's pretty easy to do that using the search feature on the Documentation Archive page. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
