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
> 

The ntp person from Nagios was on recently asking questions.

Danny
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