Bug 12326 – ntp-4.1.1b-r1 has wrong regex in /etc/init.d/ntpd for ntpdateservers

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description hinman 2002-12-17 13:13:18 UTC]

/etc/init.d/ntp has 
NTPDATESERVERS=`grep '^[server|peer][[:space:]]*' /etc/ntp.conf | awk '{print $2}'`

This regex isn't as precise as it needs to be, it will match a line like this:

restrict default ignore kod

A better regex would be:

NTPDATESERVERS=`grep '^server\b\|^peer\b' /etc/ntp.conf | awk '{print $2}'`

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-12-17 17:40:22 UTC]

or change grep to egrep ;)