Bug 460434
| Summary: | ntpd -L does not work as advertised | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Oliver <oliver341> |
| Component: | ntp | Assignee: | Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Cermak <mcermak> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | azelinka, masanari_iida, mcermak, ovasik, ralph |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
The ntpd man pages suggested that the "-L" command option could be issued without an argument. However, the user needs to define the virtual interfaces as arguments of the option. This update corrects the ntp help page.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-07-21 06:42:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The ntpd man pages suggested that the "-L" command option could be issued without an argument. However, the user needs to define the virtual interfaces as arguments of the option. This update corrects the ntp help page.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0980.html |
[root@server ~]# ntpd -L ntpd: option requires argument -L usage: ntpd [ -46abdgnqx ] [ -c config_file ] [ -f drift_file ] [ -k key_file ] [ -l log_file ] [ -p pid_file ] [ -r broadcast_delay ] [ -s stats_dir ] [ -t trusted_key ] [ -v sys_var ] [ -V default_sysvar ] [ -L [ interface ] ] [ -P fixed_process_priority ] [ -u user[:group] ] [ -i jaildir ] The man page also suggests the -L command line option can be used without an argument.