Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:08:22 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook/network-servers: a note about ntpdate might be added Message-ID: <4EBE0D56.8010902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111111221914.GA17468@chaos.ukrhub.net> References: <20111111221914.GA17468@chaos.ukrhub.net>
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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?
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