Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:50:11 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf Message-ID: <20020606103955.I9476-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20020606091023.B92654@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 June 2002 at 16:26:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <20020605084755.K91379@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes:
> > light-weight, client-side-only NTP daemon without refclock support,
> > without weird remote-configration stuff and other excess luggage.
> >
> > If somebody wants to volounteer, I will happily provide detailed
> > guidance on the timekeeping magic needed.
>
> A good suggestion, but it misses the point. We shouldn't be throwing
> out things like ntpdate *until* we have a replacement.
>
> What's the reason for deprecating ntpdate, anyway?
From TFM:
%%%
NAME
ntpdate - set the date and time via NTP
SYNOPSIS
ntpdate [-bBdoqsuv] [-a key] [-e authdelay] [-k keyfile] [-o version]
[-p samples] [-t timeout] server ...
DESCRIPTION
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.
%%%
Bruce
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