Logfile visualization tools - request for comment

2016-07-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I've spent the last week reading code and preparing for a serious effort to write logfile visualization tools for NTPsec. There are at least two good reasons to do this, one retrospective and one prospective. The retrospective one is that the stats and data-reduction tools now in the distribution

Odds and ends...

2016-07-17 Thread Hal Murray
There is some ugly code in ntp_loopfilter that's setting up a signal handler in case ntp_adjtime doesn't work. It's the sort of stuff Eric loves to rip out. I can't figure out why that code would be useful. I expect we should figure that out at build time. I've commented it out. It's still

Upcoming vacation

2016-07-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
This is a quick briefing on my vacation plans. The amount of detail in it is because I will have a week of limited availability in the evenings. followed by a week of effectively no availability. Plan accordingly. World Boardgaming Championships - Sat Jul 23 to Sun Jul 31: I'll have a heavy sche