Ntpd config file support

[Michael Conrad]

On 3/18/2014 3:09 PM, Mike Dean wrote:
> Helping them with this usually results in grumbling about it being 
> overcomplicated to perform what should be such a simple task.

IMHO, the plethora of unix config file syntaxes are much harder to learn 
than reading a quick manpage (or --help in this case) of the tool you 
want to run.  Where are they going to learn the syntax? Your 
documentation? Random Internet documentation for the real ntpd?  The man 
page for the real ntp.conf is 1700 lines long!

On 3/18/2014 3:09 PM, Mike Dean wrote:
>  I personally don't see how this tiny addition represents any 
> significant increase to the size of the source tree or the compiled 
> binary.

What syntax should be used?  the full ntpd syntax?  Should busybox emit 
errors or warnings on directives it doesn't support?  I can't imagine 
you could add this feature properly in less than 300 bytes, and that is 
significant for busybox.

On 3/18/2014 2:31 PM, Harald Becker wrote:
> ntpd -p `cat /etc/timeserver`

I'm inclined to side with Harald that this is the best solution. Can't 
be much simpler for the user than that...

-Mike