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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: misc/44286: /etc/defaults/rc.conf uses the obsolete ntpdate
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The following reply was made to PR misc/44286; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/44286: /etc/defaults/rc.conf uses the obsolete ntpdate
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:37:40 +0100

 On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:29:34PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
 
 >      Note: The functionality of this program is now available in the ntpd(8)
 >      program.  See the -q command line option in the ntpd(8) page.  After a
 >      suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program is to be retired from
 >      this distribution.
 
 I seem to remember a discussion regarding this about six months or so ago,
 where the outcome was that ntpd -q does *not* do the same thing, or at least
 not reliably enough.
 
 Ceri
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