The following forums thread discusses the problems I and other users are having with ntp since at least 4.1.1b-r3 and possible (if I recall correctly) the prior release: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29486&highlight=ntp There is also a thread on gentoo-user dealing with the same issues, and most of the advice offered seems to have failed to solve the problems. Obviously _someone_ knows how to make ntp work or it would be masked, so why not at least write a README with a couple of paragraphs explaining how to configure it and drop it into /usr/share/doc/ntp*? While I'm complaining, where are the man pages? Sorry, but HTML documentation bites the big one, in my opinion.
i really dont see how people are messing up their conf.d/ntpd files since it has comments above each variable explaining what they should be set to ... as for the man pages, the default ntpd doesnt come with them, but ill see if i can find a utility to convert them or something
There seems to be some confusion about the use of ntpdate, and the config files /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntpd. Looking at /usr/portage/net-misc/ntp/ChangeLog it seems there have been some changes to the configuration files, but I'll be darned if I can tell you exactly _what_ they are or what changes I should make to my configuration to make things work again. I'm not the only one having these problems, that should tell you that there's at least a documentation bug here.
do these updated configure files suit you ? http://wh0rd.tk/gentoo/my-ebuilds/net-misc/ntp/files/ntp.conf http://wh0rd.tk/gentoo/my-ebuilds/net-misc/ntp/files/ntpd.confd
well if the new comments in the configuration files arent enough, i really dont know what it would take for users to understand ntp short of telling them to RTFM feel free to comment but i feel the new files are enough http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/ntp/files/ntp.conf.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/ntp/files/ntpd.confd.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
FYI, I've created an XSL stylesheet that can convert the ntp HTML docs into normal manual pages. See the following bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20747
