[Nagiosplug-help] check_ntp

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 06:17, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Martinus Nel wrote:
>>
>>>Dear all
>>>
>>>Could some one explain the following please:
>>>
>>>NTP WARNING: Jitter error and jitter 2.451 msec  +/- 1 msec
>>>
>>>I get this from time to time.  The server I am checking against is local.
>>>
>>>This happens every day, multiple times.  I have more than one server I do a
>>>check_ntp against, some of the checks complains more, other less.
>>>
>>>I would assume the line should be readin: "Offset error ..." ?
>>>
>>>Does check_ntp use ntpq -p ?
>>>
>>
>>Use the source, Luke. It's written in perl, so it's fairly elligible.
> 
> 
> Heh.  Elligible, or illegible?
> 
> Perl guys like to kid around about how they can't read each other's
> code...
> 

Indeed, and they're usually very proud of it too. I find it a bit 
disturbing that the (lack of) coding style simply doesn't allow proper 
indentation programs to be written. That's probably why most perl 
projects are a one-man effort.

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