I'm working on a project that attempts to parse the output of `ntpq -p`, and have heard a report that sometimes the refid is empty. Here is the output I'm seeing, the indention was mangled by the logging system, so I've attempted to realign things below:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== 0.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 +198.1.1.1 16 u 1048 1024 376 15.384 -0.538 0.943 My question is, what does an empty refid indicate and are there any tips for machine parsing the output correctly given that the lines may have a differing number of columns. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
