From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 12 06:08:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E927106564A for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893388FC14 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so5519280bkb.13 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=chGMRiSL4VmvrkkqQ/F8EcbMTYJzLJXwIs5TYjy3ZLQ=; b=Y7pQb9i8nh4ZtJzpEeRNWxFT4uzzSFhZsoqVgqX6LCb0SBa1KQ3p37b83J4yWbuC55 8HXPSbZGxnYT6Vwgvak7DLPpWCrjaldduTd6eiPY5VzQ0YNaUMlIhpw939wCQg0BYjjJ F5WGrcI5GYkbhvskR3e4tG786WBXYKUUpRTNo= Received: by 10.204.143.140 with SMTP id v12mr11244771bku.15.1321078095273; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (athedsl-4364788.home.otenet.gr. [79.130.9.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fu17sm15738953bkc.9.2011.11.11.22.08.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBE0D56.8010902@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:08:22 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20111111221914.GA17468@chaos.ukrhub.net> In-Reply-To: <20111111221914.GA17468@chaos.ukrhub.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: handbook/network-servers: a note about ntpdate might be added X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:08:17 -0000 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 > 5307 Basic Configuration > 5308 ntpdate > 5309 > > 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;. > > > 5310 If you only wish to synchronize your clock when the > 5311 machine boots up, you can use&man.ntpdate.8;. This may be > .... > 5328 > 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?