Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:43:05 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook/network-servers: a note about ntpdate might be added Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1111122141480.882@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EBE0D56.8010902@gmail.com> References: <20111111221914.GA17468@chaos.ukrhub.net> <4EBE0D56.8010902@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 12/11/2011 12:19 πμ, Taras Korenko wrote: >> Hi, folks. >> According to [1], the ntpdate utility is to be retired from&os;. This >> info >> might also be reflected as a note in '30.10.3.1 Basic Configuration' of >> [2]. >> I hope that the position of insertion is correct, but my wording >> definitely >> requires a lot of polishing :-/ >> >> handbook/network-servers/chapter.sgml,v 1.138 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 5306 <sect3> >> 5307 <title>Basic Configuration</title> >> 5308 <indexterm><primary>ntpdate</primary></indexterm> >> 5309 >> <note> >> <para>The following information about&man.ntpdate.8; is >> still >> applicable, but keep in mind that the ntpdate utility >> is to >> be retired soon from&os;.</para> >> </note> >> >> 5310 <para>If you only wish to synchronize your clock when >> the >> 5311 machine boots up, you can use&man.ntpdate.8;. This >> may be >> .... >> 5328 </sect3> >> 5329 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntpdate >> 2. >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ntp.html >> > > The Handbook only refers to ntpdate for the one-off setting of the clock > during boot. In fact ntpd supports also this kind of setting using the > following in rc.conf: > > ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" > > I think we should include this info and either remove the info on ntpdate or > clearly mark it as a secondary and deprecated option. Ideas? We should definitely cover the ntpd functionality. I would just as soon not mention ntpdate as well, other than something like "this functionality used to be provided by an ntpdate(8) utility". -Ben Kadukhome | help
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