Re: [Xymon-developer] SF.net SVN: xymon:[7675] branches/4.x-master

[J.C. C. <cl...@te...>]

Yeah, you're right. On reflection, this is probably better handled with a
(new) NTPDATEOPTS variable, with a default in lib/environ of the status
quo. I'm tempted to treat the remaining (non "-p #") options as invariant.

That would probably make it cleaner for both users and packagers.

-jc


On Thu, October 1, 2015 11:43 am, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, at 20:05, jcc...@us... wrote:
>>
>> -NTPDATE="ntpdate"                              # Path to the 'ntpdate'
>> program
>> +NTPDATE="ntpdate -p 1"                         # Path to the 'ntpdate'
>> program
>
> This is going to require some communication to users. What happens to
> their experience if they don't update NTPDATE in their config files?
> Would it be worth adding a small bit to check and see if
> NTPDATE="ntpdate" and by then automatically do -p 2 just so it works as
> it always did?
>
>
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