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ntp-keygen documentation lists options that ntp-keygen does not support

Bug #913857 reported by Max Brustkern
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ntp (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

I'm running precise amd64, but the problem appears to exist on oneiric i386 and amd64 as well. Natty and older versions support a -p option in ntp-keygen, i.e.
ntp-keygen -p test
Oneiric and precise do not support this, but the man page has not been updated, and the referenced documentation at /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/keygen.html (in the ntp-doc package) mentions the -p option as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ntp 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.14-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 9 10:54:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ntp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-09 (0 days ago)

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Max Brustkern (nuclearbob) wrote :
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)
tags: added: manpage
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ntp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
tags: removed: apparmor
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Alec Warner (antarus) wrote :

man ntp-wait also lists the '-f' flag, which is not a real flag (same source package I believe.) Let me know if you want a separate bug for it.
antarus@host$ man ntp-wait
NTPQ(8) NTPQ(8)

NAME
       ntp-wait - wait for NTP server to synchronize

SYNOPSIS
       ntp-wait [ -f ] [ -n tries ] [ -s sleep ] [ -v ]

DESCRIPTION
       ntp-wait waits until the locally running ntpd is in state 4 (synchronized). This could be useful at boot time, to delay the boot
       sequence until after "ntpd -g" has set the time.

OPTIONS
       -f Force hard failure if state is unknown.
< I omitted the rest ..>

antarus@host$ ntp-wait -f -n 100 -s 3 -v
Unknown option: f
Waiting for ntpd to synchronize... OK!

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

I know it's a long time, but I'm cleaning up old NTP bugs atm.

-p works fine (?again?).
The default is the retval of gethostname, so if already things are set and you specify other it wont work.
But I had success with ntp-keygen -p $(hostname)

That said the option is there.

For ntp-wait the force is also gone from the manpage.

Setting bug to fix released to reflect that.

Changed in ntp (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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