On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:01, Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In short, I reckon the ntp stuff needs more documentation especially > > about the debian specific stuff. Is this valid? > > Yes. But I assume you are running stable. If sid ever gets out the > door you will see some significant updates and improvements in NTP.
I am on sid, and I find it particularly challenging. Man pages point to HTML docs, which are not like man pages - in fact they get into so much background, that just configuring it for (my, or any as I can tell) specific scenario takes ages - of reading through the background material. I have to agree with Ben here - even for sid. Yes there's a great quantity of documentation, and that is a lot better than none :) But it's not as convenient as "regular debian" documentation - not by a long shot. Even after quite a few emails of support from this list (and thanks very much to those who helped) I still can't get my laptop to sync with my server. > > that the server configuration comes from /etc/default/ntpupdate. > > Now I understand that /etc/default is an important dir tree for > > debian configuration but it would have been nice to go man ntpupdate > > and see /etc/default/ntpupdate in the FILES section of a man page > > for ntpupdate. Does anyone agree? I agree. Once you get used to this "standard" though (probably in Debian Administrators Guide) it will be one of the first places you look. The other is: /usr/share/doc/[package]/examples/<example rc and et al files> > In the latest ntp configuration the file is /etc/default/ntpdate. So > your problem is already fixed and will be in the next Debian release. I think you just missed what he was saying - not there there is a file missing in /etc/default, but that he didn't know that there was a file in /etc/default in the first place, and that the man page should have included that bit of information. > One of the reasons I know about the ntp changes is that I was tracking > down a different problem. Checking against unstable I could see much > activity there. I do hope ntp gets a little easier - I've been "absorbing" it for may be two and a half years now, and still find little things (if you can call ntp 'little') quite frustrating on occasion. I'm very happy I can "compute in freedom" though :) cheers zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
