Re: ntp configuration
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:01, Bob Proulx wrote:
> blm@ingwaz.pair.com wrote:
> > In short, I reckon the ntp stuff needs more documentation especially
> > about the debian specific stuff. Is this valid?
>
> Yes. But I assume you are running stable. If sid ever gets out the
> door you will see some significant updates and improvements in NTP.
I am on sid, and I find it particularly challenging. Man pages point to
HTML docs, which are not like man pages - in fact they get into so much
background, that just configuring it for (my, or any as I can tell)
specific scenario takes ages - of reading through the background
material.
I have to agree with Ben here - even for sid. Yes there's a great
quantity of documentation, and that is a lot better than none :) But
it's not as convenient as "regular debian" documentation - not by a long
shot.
Even after quite a few emails of support from this list (and thanks very
much to those who helped) I still can't get my laptop to sync with my
server.
> > that the server configuration comes from /etc/default/ntpupdate.
> > Now I understand that /etc/default is an important dir tree for
> > debian configuration but it would have been nice to go man ntpupdate
> > and see /etc/default/ntpupdate in the FILES section of a man page
> > for ntpupdate. Does anyone agree?
I agree.
Once you get used to this "standard" though (probably in Debian
Administrators Guide) it will be one of the first places you look. The
other is:
/usr/share/doc/[package]/examples/<example rc and et al files>
> In the latest ntp configuration the file is /etc/default/ntpdate. So
> your problem is already fixed and will be in the next Debian release.
I think you just missed what he was saying - not there there is a file
missing in /etc/default, but that he didn't know that there was a file
in /etc/default in the first place, and that the man page should have
included that bit of information.
> One of the reasons I know about the ntp changes is that I was tracking
> down a different problem. Checking against unstable I could see much
> activity there.
I do hope ntp gets a little easier - I've been "absorbing" it for may be
two and a half years now, and still find little things (if you can call
ntp 'little') quite frustrating on occasion.
I'm very happy I can "compute in freedom" though :)
cheers
zen
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