Bug#388503: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388503: print "ntpq -c peers" in status

[Christian Hammers]

Hi

On 2006-09-22 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 21:59 schrieb Christian Hammers:
> > The only thing that one normally does with a running ntpd is to query
> > if all peers are reachable so it would be quite handy if the
> > "/etc/init.d/ntp status" command would tell that in addition to the
> > plain "NTP server is running".
> 
> I'm unsure about this.  On its face, it sounds like a good idea.  But I don't 
> know what sort of dependencies this introduces into running "/etc/init.d/ntp 
> status" (network, resolver, access control, firewall?).  It's not 
> like "ntpq -c peers" is so hard to type, is it?

Not hard to type but hard to figure out as ntpq has no manpage (in sarge)
and "help" lists a lot of commands from which none is immediately visible
as "print me the current status"..

bye,

-christian-