Harlan, I don't want to pick a fight on this, but you told me offline that the html2man utility was imperfect and not appropriate to convert bulk NTP html pages to man pages. So, why is that utlity still in the distribution? It may yet be useful in many cases, but there needs to be a statement to that effect.
Also reported offline, there is in fact an html page on the sntp progam, so the sntp man page is superfluous, especially if installed by default. I don't promote this as specific to UDel, but applicable everywhere. The sntp program included in the distribution itself has serious hazards and can be badly misused if certain program options are are enabled. The html page is carefully structured to avoid these hazards. In any case, the sntp program should be bansihed to a separate but supported distribution. On the options thing, whatever intricate facility you have installed creates four new files for each program. I tried to find what option letter coresponded to what obscure define in the ntp-keygen.c program and could not discover it. As result, the html documentation and the options list decodes are probably discordant. As I said many times, the official documentation should be in one place only and can be updated as necessary without creating little discords elsewhere. On the other hand, I have no objection and do encourage useful help as in the standard Unix command usage decodes. Dave Harlan Stenn wrote: > Folks, > > I have privately followed up with Dave on his response. > > Anybody with a threaded newsreader (or access to one) should be easily able > to find it, if they care that much. > > H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
