On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > * Package name : ntpstat > Version : 0.0.0.1 > Upstream Author : Daniel Huckstep <darkhel...@darkhelmetlive.com> > * URL : https://github.com/darkhelmet/ntpstat > * License : GPL-2 > Programming Lang: C > Description : show network time protocol (ntp) status > > This program uses an NTP mode 6 control message, which is the same as that > used by the ntpq command. The ntpdc command uses NTP mode 7, details of > which are elusive. For details on the format of NTP control message, see > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/rfc/rfc1305/rfc1305b.ps.
I can safely assume ntpstat has some sort of extreme advantage over ntpq or it wouldn't even exist... but shouldn't that reason be disclosed in the long description? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140912182312.gb30...@khazad-dum.debian.net