Rick Jones writes: > Rick Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In particular, I have a situation with a system with a Very Large > > (tm) and dynamic number of interfaces, which I think is causing the > > ntpd to become Quite Unhappy (tm) (perhaps running out of > > filedescriptors - 1024 being the current ulimit but that is just a > > guess). It simply goes "poof" without anything particularly > > descriptive in syslog. > > > Anyway, I really don't need/want it trying to listen on > 99% of > > them, but I also have multiple systems whereon the name(s) of the > > interfaces I do want ntpd to listen on may not be the same and a > > Strong Desire (tm) to have the same config file everywhere. They do > > though share a common prefix and I was wondering if something like > > "interface listen foo*" could be used. Or, for that matter > > "interface ignore bar*" > > One thing I left-out, because it didn't dawn on me to mention it, is > that almost all these interfaces are virtual. Someone else > pointed-out the -L option, which I have tried with success.
Rick, -L only works on a few OSes and I'm inclined to deprecate it after we release 4.2.8. The ntp.conf file "interface" directive is the better choice. It may not do a "pattern match" but that shouldn't be that hard to fix, should a volunteer feel like doing that. H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
