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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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