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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:43:06 +0200
From:      Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fix ntptrace man page
Message-ID:  <6101e8c40908250743k22c8b3cdr5b5a45ea91154730@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1251191538.70662.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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funny, in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/scripts/ntptrace implemented only the -n switch


On 8/25/09, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> 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
>



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