ntpstat is a small utility included in the ntp package, which prints the synchronization status of ntpd, the maximum error of the clock and few other fields. Apparently, there are people who find it useful for monitoring. It has been included in the ntp package for a very long time, but it's not actually part of the upstream ntp package (and can't be as it's licensed under GPL). I guess ntpstat should rather have its own package. There are few issues with it, however. The last ntpstat release is from 2002 and there is no upstream now. We have a couple of patches that make it work with the current ntp code. It implements the mode 6 protocol (used by ntpq for instance), but it's really the minimum needed to send a request and parse the data if it happens to be in the first packet of the response. It can break easily. Also, it doesn't support IPv6, to get an IPv6 address for the system peer it would have to iterate over the NTP associations. Instead of fixing and maitaining the C code, I thought it would be much easier to rewrite it from scratch as a bash script using ntpq. Also, it would be easy to add support for chronyd using the chronyc utility. This is what I have now, its output should be in most cases identical to what the original ntpstat produced. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlichvar/ntpstat/master/ntpstat I could write a new man page and put it in the ntp package as a replacement. Or it could be added as a new package in Fedora, which ntp could recommend or suggest. Would that make sense? Another option is to simply drop ntpstat from ntp with no replacement. Thoughts? -- Miroslav Lichvar -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
