Make 'services' tab recognize OpenNTP as NTP daemon

[star26bsd]

Hi! For various reasons (which would go beyond the scope) I replaced the default ntpd service with OpenBSD's OpenNTP (apt-get install openntpd). I am happy and no fallouts to deal with. However, the 'services' tab of the Proxmox GUI now shows NTP to be down, naturally. Where is this list parsed from? I'd be curious if one could help the GUI to recognize OpenNTP as NTP service. Ideally, the GUI could even look for either of these daemons to get satisfied?

Thanks you!
Stephan

 

[dietmar]

Hi! For various reasons ...

We only implement things which makes sense for us, so you need to explain why we should support openntpd?

 

[star26bsd]

We only implement things which makes sense for us, so you need to explain why we should support openntpd?

Of course, it depends on what you want, actually. OpenNTPD focuses on those 95% of the people who want to do one thing: Sync their time. It involves less code, runs in privsep mode and tries to be as robust as possible (see this, too). For some, that may not be the choice. For me it is. That's why I wondered if Proxmox GUI would be able to recognize it. Don't get me wrong, I am only trying to find out how to fix my use case. I'm not suggesting to replace anything.

 

[dietmar]

Of course, it depends on what you want, actually. OpenNTPD focuses on those 95% of the people who want to do one thing: Sync their time.

That also works with the installed NTP daemon.

 

[star26bsd]

That also works with the installed NTP daemon.

That's not the point. But never mind, I take it as a 'no' and will look into it myself.

 

[mir]

My guess is that the GUI looks for this file: /var/run/ntpd.pid