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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:44:51 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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:  <20020606104451.C46232@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020606103955.I9476-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20020606091023.B92654@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020606103955.I9476-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Thursday,  6 June 2002 at 10:50:11 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 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.
>>>>

Hmm.  Based on what other have said, it would appear that this note is
incorrect.

Greg
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