From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 25 14:44:34 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 DCD9B1065692; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.pntr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC598FC3B; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1864188ewy.36 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:44:33 -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=naEJDhdja1sjnyEgrdieWmorZm4I5BNRyQ8vj/UFrlY=; b=v4hx4wX4Ks9zmH5ofSeDfFQ7EhM02vb0u7HlBQmhFKMIRHhIQYRsf6e4vUBwOV/SYj TByF7uUDIIWTgWe6hZ6TY+KfeFLU6G9LECqLwVO2RsA85qNXjR7WSMaHZjOne7APgiUc RtIoxxc/ump+D+8fko8UhdoZopu9I10xrUvi0= 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=NnhZmNtVm4JAbJS+G1m9GDEf/Zr+S+kZ/bC8+str/TFxPqviwhyV8UrEpBGbRpEM9t YU6FPA4z5FBl9DZ8GRT8L7Zi6sX4Xm52n8mygrjPJacWfNZf8bF1Bs921GMc7qlksvKE CEgIY49i1KndnJCeLRCwx/dB2gkhtmOkHXdZs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.102.216.8 with SMTP id o8mr2109582mug.20.1251211472989; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:44:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40908250743k22c8b3cdr5b5a45ea91154730@mail.gmail.com> References: <6101e8c40908241958m1c3b9e33w55b4e3c485e5a823@mail.gmail.com> <1251191538.70662.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <6101e8c40908250743k22c8b3cdr5b5a45ea91154730@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:44:32 +0200 Message-ID: <6101e8c40908250744t27f0f075y462c746a13ab936d@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 14:44:34 -0000 On 8/25/09, Oliver Pinter wrote: > 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. the ntpd code is under the contrib dir, but the ntptrace script is freebsds own script >> >> Gavin >> >