Heiko Gerstung wrote: > David J Taylor schrieb: [] >> With my own "restart" file, I do use the Windows "sleep" command >> (part of the resource kit), so that you can: >> >> net stop ntp >> sleep 3 >> net start ntp >> sleep 3 >> ntpq -p >> sleep 7 >> >> giving you the chance to see that it has started properly, and that >> some servers have been found. I needed this on my portable, as NTP >> would try and start before DNS was working (i.e. before the wireless >> link had been established). > > Unfortunately I cannot rely on "sleep" being there on every Windows > PC out there, my trick is to use "ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 > NUL" to insert > a > ~10s delay between net stop and net start (otherwise the service > would not start correctly).
Agreed. >> You /might/ want to add an association between .conf files and >> Notepad, so that Notepad becomes the .conf file editor. This should >> probably be optional, but defaulted "on". > I will think about this, but I guess I can just hardlink to "notepad > path\ntp.conf". Agreed. I was thinking more of my own system with multiple .conf files to edit! >> I also like the idea of a link to the official documentation on the >> Web. Wherever that is. <G> > Oh, the official documentation is per default installed on your local > disk with the installer. But it can be found at www.ntp.org if you are > looking > for the most recent version :-) > >> I wouldn't add too many menu entries, though. > I use submenus in order to keeps things small in regards to screen > space. > Thank you very much for your feedback! > > Best Regards, > Heiko Heiko, I would suggest having both a link to both a local copy of the documentation (entitled "Local documentation" and an online link to www.ntp.org entitled "The Network Time Protocol project online". Sorry, but I would rather have more menu entries than /any/ sub-menus, to be honest. My thinking is: "NTP is simple, and should not need sub-menus". Up to eight or ten menu entries is fine with me. Thanks for listening. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions