<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Eric S. Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" target="_blank">esr@thyrsus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":112" class="a3s aXjCH m158fab38bdaba2cc">Instead of trying to make ntpmon do things ntpq does well already,<br>
you should be asking yourself what a TUI program like ntpmon can do<br>
well that a CLI program like ntpq cannot.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For a newbie like me, a TUI (or a GUI) is an easy way to check if I have setup my system reasonably correctly.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The way I got into all this for the first time ever was a patch to gpsd.php to fix a map that showed where I was (I knew where I was, I just wanted the map that had bit-rot to show it). <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think of ntpmon like the Linux 'top' utility. It shows, at a snapshot that might miss something interesting, what the system state is. It does not really help me with performance tuning, but it tells me that there _isn't_ a performance issue in the system, as a whole.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Unfortunately, I am unable to play with this new toy, as all my servers that run NTPsec are in the pool, and ntpmon just goes to sleep on them (see issue #206).<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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