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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Ntpd config file support (sample sed)
From:       ibid.ag () gmail ! com
Date:       2014-03-19 15:46:43
Message-ID: 20140319154642.GA1812 () Caracal
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:15:21PM +0100, Harald Becker wrote:
> Hi Mike !
> 
> On 18-03-2014 15:12 Mike Dean <mdean@emacinc.com> wrote:
> ># Put your ntp nameservers here
> 
> To clarify: It's not a name server, it's a time server (NTP =
> network time protocol).
> 
> ... and what makes it difficult to write such things in a file,
> use an sed filter to read that config into a script variable,
> then use the arguments from variable when invoking Busybox ntpd?
> 
> With some clever sed rules you can filter out empty lines and
> comments, pick lines which start with "timeserver" then add the
> required "-p" parameter prefix to any such lines

Here's what that sed could look like:

[ -e /etc/ntp.conf ] && NTP_SERVERS="`sed -ne 's/#.*//' -e 's/^timeserver/-p/p'`"

Just saying this because it's not even clever.


HTH,
Isaac Dunham
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