On 8/25/09, Oliver Pinter <oliver.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > funny, in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/scripts/ntptrace implemented only the -n > switch > > > On 8/25/09, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkin...@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 04:58 +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> It's a small fix to ntpdate man page for freebsd 7-stable. >> >> I was looking at this a few days ago. The problem is not that the man >> page is wrong, it's that the man page documents an entirely different >> tool. For some reason, FreeBSD provides it's own version of ntptrace >> which lacks anything but the basic functionality, whereas the man page >> installed is that of the ntptrace tool as supplied in the ntpd >> distribution. It would seem much more sensible to use the official >> ntptrace and retain all the functionality people expoect from ntptrace, >> although I haven't yet found time to get to the bottom of why this was >> switched over from the official code in the first place. the ntpd code is under the contrib dir, but the ntptrace script is freebsds own script
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