From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 25 14:43:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E6F106568F; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.pntr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9396D8FC2B; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so2035077fxm.43 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:43:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VRvghPseDjHV6Mvb00dZK915SInd/KwIwCDU8USAeBg=; b=x+gp3hbiTKkTlLOC8j9LrG3ud1yJNNC5Bi5Tw4n8N93euXz+dIx8vKval2FSDVhzfk /ReFo9wcPIS7mNJrCpukyqrHs+klbdDEZMQRMa6Lj8SiyPjer/HDW2Nx+7gOp9diTsN3 r2ST5xLSJTyoZS08+tUfVzbUYpvxldQxFmdVU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Zy9kNgGR+kWYL6objvV5gJDOkT//jxHGo9sB+qmjWz4iXduoAI8qmCfHKWhKYWciFV Q4djPdfDLwoItUSLMh6rXcBg93EWSAtfMuEFSy5qTbLiU90oW2rcWua1iljQaynSTB+m Rf3Hf4B4HoRo7kzfzg29Apm6ox1lmUW42uzrQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.126.32 with SMTP id d32mr2758431mun.0.1251211386587; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:43:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1251191538.70662.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <6101e8c40908241958m1c3b9e33w55b4e3c485e5a823@mail.gmail.com> <1251191538.70662.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:43:06 +0200 Message-ID: <6101e8c40908250743k22c8b3cdr5b5a45ea91154730@mail.gmail.com> From: Oliver Pinter To: Gavin Atkinson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Subject: Re: fix ntptrace man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:08 -0000 funny, in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/scripts/ntptrace implemented only the -n switch On 8/25/09, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 04:58 +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> It's a small fix to ntpdate man page for freebsd 7-stable. > > I was looking at this a few days ago. The problem is not that the man > page is wrong, it's that the man page documents an entirely different > tool. For some reason, FreeBSD provides it's own version of ntptrace > which lacks anything but the basic functionality, whereas the man page > installed is that of the ntptrace tool as supplied in the ntpd > distribution. It would seem much more sensible to use the official > ntptrace and retain all the functionality people expoect from ntptrace, > although I haven't yet found time to get to the bottom of why this was > switched over from the official code in the first place. > > Gavin >