Ntpd config file support

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Denys Vlasenko
> <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> With ntpd configuration file feature, in many cases you are likely
>> to still need a script such as this to regenerate the config file.
>
> I would not need any script to do that and I am likely not alone.

How are you going to get DHCP-supplied ntp servers' addresses
supplied to the ntpd?

> For the win, you can look into the real ntpd executable and ask them why
> they implemented a simple config interface.

They also implemented encryption, IIRC. Think about it.
Encrypted packets containing highly secret information
such as ... current time?

The "standard" ntpd has good time keeping code.
The quality/sanity of other code there is not a given.