ntpmon now has some keystroke commands
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Dec 14 16:09:15 UTC 2016
Jason Azze <jason at azze.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think we are now bikesheding. Let someone else driveby command aliases
> > for ntpmon.
> >
> > Does anyone else have any ideas for any other data displays to add to it?
>
> How about a cheat sheet for the meanings of the column headers. A user
> who was unfamiliar with the sacred texts might look at the man page
> for ntpmon, but there's no help there. You have to slog through the
> ntpq man page, and by then you've forgotten what you were looking up.
Hm. I think the right answer is probably to factor out the desription of those
displays so it can be incluided in both manual pages. Again, single point
of truth rule - I don't want to have two different sources of authority
that are likely to unsync.
> And I think the bikeshed should be painted orange to increase its
> visibility in the fog.
LOL. Jason winz the Internets for today.
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