Hi Philip, Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017, 10:29:06 CEST schrieb Philip Prindeville: > I’m working on Issue #4588 (ntpd needs UCI parsing comparable to sysntpd) > and I had a question… > > ntpd ships with the canned /etc/ntp.conf from the distro, but if we specify: > > > config timeserver ntp > list server ‘ntp.redfish-solutions.com’ > > > then the /etc/ntp.conf file needs to be rewritten as: > > > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > > server 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst > ... > > > to: > > > drift file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > > server ntp.redfish-solutions.com iburst > ... > > > instead. Are there any good guidelines (or examples) on how to mangle > config files in-place? > > I’m guessing I’d need a sed script with a loop to gather all of the ‘server’ > lines and replace them with one. > > Or am I missing something obvious?
I started working on this topic some weeks ago, too, but did not yet completed it - if you are interested, I've pushed it here: https://github.com/mhei/packages/tree/ntpd-uci I used the 'include' statement to have a mostly static /etc/ntp.conf and generate a dynamic file for inclusion in /tmp... HTH, Michael _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
