[ntpsec commit] Minor tweaks to unternal documentation and TODO.

Eric S. Raymond esr at ntpsec.org
Mon Oct 19 23:21:51 UTC 2015


Module:    ntpsec
Branch:    master
Commit:    d4f61202f4dfe01ff657d42fe6f00b4421822e7e
Changeset: http://git.ntpsec.org/ntpsec/commit/?id=d4f61202f4dfe01ff657d42fe6f00b4421822e7e

Author:    Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
Date:      Mon Oct 19 19:20:38 2015 -0400

Minor tweaks to unternal documentation and TODO.

---

 NEWS            | 2 +-
 README          | 6 ++++--
 devel-docs/TODO | 6 +++---
 scripts/README  | 8 +++-----
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 44b1efc..5f0da1b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 = NTPsec project news =
 
-For historic news from NTP Classic, see devel-docs/TODO.
+For historic news from NTP Classic, see devel-docs/TODO in the distribution.
 
 Much of the traditional function of a news file is now better addressed
 by browsing the comments in the revision history.  This file will focus
diff --git a/README b/README
index 659da5f..ba33d2a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -62,10 +62,12 @@ ntpfrob::       The ntpfrob utility collects several small diagnostic
 		hardware, including reading the clock tick rate,
 		precision, and jitter.
 
-ntpkeygen::
-		Directory containing the utility program used to generate
+ntpkeygen::	Directory containing the utility program used to generate
 		NTP authentication keys.
 
+mtpleapfetch::	Directory containing a script ro be run from a cron job
+		to keep your local leap-second file properly updated.
+
 ntpq/::		Directory containing sources for a utility program to
 		query local and remote NTP peers for state variables and
 		related timekeeping information. This program conforms
diff --git a/devel-docs/TODO b/devel-docs/TODO
index f9575e4..2e1da53 100644
--- a/devel-docs/TODO
+++ b/devel-docs/TODO
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ None right now. (Sep-22 2015)
   is right if we're trying to install a test setup to userspace but wrong
   in the normal case - we want /sbin, not /usr/sbin.
 
-* There's no installation yet for ntpleapfetch, or the Perl
-  executables under scripts/, or their support library under
-  scripts/lib/.
+* There's no installation yet for ntpleapfetch, or the three Perl
+  executables under scripts/ that should be installed (ntpwait, ntpsweep,
+  ntptrace), or their support library under scripts/lib/.
 
 * The install production needs to warn of stale ntpdc and ntpdate binaries.
 
diff --git a/scripts/README b/scripts/README
index 12bc0dd..cff44b5 100644
--- a/scripts/README
+++ b/scripts/README
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 == README file for directory scripts/ ==
 
 This directory contains shell and perl script files for the configuration,
-monitoring and support of NTP installations.
+monitoring and support of NTP installations.  Not all of these are
+installed in a normal setup
 
 calc_tickadj::	Calculates "optimal" value for tick given ntp.drift file
 
 lib::		NTP interface package required to query Mode 6 packets
-		from the daemon.
+		from the daemon from Perl scripts.
 
 monitoring::	Directory containing perl scripts useful for monitoring
                 operations
 
-ntpleapfetch::	Script to update the leap-second from the NIST leapsecond file.
-		Meant to be run from a cron job.
-
 ntpwait::	Blocks until ntpd is in state 4 (synchronized).
 		Useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence
 		until after "ntpd -g" has set the time.



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