Joachim Schrod wrote: > Per Hedeland wrote: >> >>>> since ntpdate can't really tell you anything about how >>>> your local ntpd is doing (it seems to use ntpq too, but not for the >>>> offset). >>> >>> ntpdate -q localhost >>> would do that (and might be used, when Nagios monitors localhost). >> >> No it wouldn't - it's just plain bizarre: ntpdate can only tell you the >> time offset between the queried host and the local host, which will >> obviously always be effectively zero with such a query. > > Thanks for your clarification; of course you're completely right, I > haven't thought about the semantics of ntpdate. > > I'll open a bug ticket for this at the Nagios project, as ntpd > monitoring is obviously seriously botched. > > Joachim >
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