ntpd daemon

[Laszlo Papp]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>> Either way, since I have spent a couple of hours before realizing it,
>> I think it would be beneficial to briefly extend documentation. It may
>> sound trivial for people familiar enough with "ntp", but for me it was
>> not. Usually, in networking, servers and clients are different things,
>> not rarely significantly. You can call me silly or any other way that
>> you like, but it would have helped me to have a few more words about
>> the usage of this option.
>
> Propose a change to ntpd --help

Apparently you did that yourself:

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=3aef814c0b08d9703280b4772060ce5016c683c4

I think there are still at least two issues in the peer documentation:

        -p PEER Obtain time from PEER (may be repeated)
                If -p is not given, read /etc/ntp.conf

1) It does not mention that it aborts if the peer is unavailable, e.g.
unresolvable hostname.
2) It does not mention what the format of /etc/ntp.conf is. It may be
obvious for you, but for me it is not. I assume it is some standard
format, but what is the standard? Any reference to it, etc?