[Xymon] Patch: ntpdate option -p deprecated

[Jeremy Laidman]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 00:07, Brian Scott <bscott at bunyatech.com.au> wrote:

>
> i think using a discouraged wrapper like this makes no sense.
>
> However, we still need some way to deal with the cases where the default
> is still the old ntp.
>
> > The attached rewritten patch implements this.
>


> Would you mind if I tried to generalise your patch to automatically
> detect which version to use and pick the correct options accordingly? A
> quick look at the code suggests changes to configure.server, a new
> script under build/ to detect which type of ntp is installed, and
> possibly changes to the various build/Makefile.* to set a per-OS
> default. Also I notice that the defaults when nothing is set in
> xymonserver.cfg are established in lib/environ.c but they would be quite
> messy to tinker with.
>

I don't think this should be done at compile/build time. The build server
might not use the same NTP package, or even the same version of distro, or
the same distro, or even the same OS.

The xymonserver.cfg config file has NTPDATE and NTPDATEOPTS values that can
be modified by the sysadmin, to use ntpdig, chronyd, or whatever is
installed onto the Xymon server at the time. If ntpdate is deprecated,
perhaps these variables should now be adjusted to reflect a more commonly
installed NTP client.

I'm not sure if the Xymon server does anything with the results of the
ntpdate query. If it does, then we need to be mindful that the parser might
not recognise the format of ntpdig output. In which case, a wrapper might
actually be the best solution. Perhaps the Xymon source should provide a
few different wrapper scripts called ntpdate-chrony, ntpdate-ntpsec, etc,
and the sysadmin can simply adjust NTPDATE to use the appropriate wrapper
script.

J
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