ntpmon should be more usable now

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Dec 9 06:07:41 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> >> It's what you want if you are trying to figure out who is using your 
> server.
> > *blink*
> ...
> > /me adds that sentence to the mrulist  
> 
> I didn't see where you added it.

includes/ntpq-body.txt, mrulist command entry, end of first graf.

> It's probably appropriate to change the "using" to "using or abusing".
> 
> An example might be interesting.
> ntpq -nc "mrulist mincount=1000 sort=avgint" | more
> will print all the clients that have sent 1000 or more packets and sort by 
> average time between requests.  Grossly abusive clients are on the top of the 
> printout.
> 
> [that example won't work right until we fix the sort order]

All yours.  I'll take both patches.
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