From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en] Description of problem: According to the man page for ntptrace it should support the following options: -d Turns on some debugging output. -n Turns off the printing of host names... -r Retries Sets the number of retransmission attempts.... -t timeout Sets the retransmission timeout (in seconds).... -v Prints verbose information about the NTP servers. The only option which appears to work is -n. All others return the following error: Unknown option: This appears to be confirmed by looking at the ntptrace script. It shows: use Socket; use Getopt::Std; use vars qw($opt_n); $ntpq = "ntpq"; getopts('n'); $dodns = 1; $dodns = 0 if (defined($opt_n)); $host = shift; $host ||= "127.0.0.1"; ... So it seems to me that either ntptrace should be fixed to support those options, or the man page should be corrected to list only those options supported by ntptrace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ntptrace -v 2. 3. Actual Results: Returns unknown option Expected Results: Returned verbose information Additional info:
The implementation of ntptrace changed from a binary written in C to a Perl script, and the documentation apparently hasn't followed. However, Dr. Mills doesn't allow any man pages to be created for the NTP Project, so any man pages you see are the result of some other project which has taken the HTML documentation and formatted that as a man page. Looking at the HTML source for the documentation on this command, I see that it hasn't been updated, either. This has been noted on the bug at <http://bugzilla.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364>, but the owner of that bug may decide to split it out.
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Fixed in rawhide.