Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:33:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0 Message-ID: <20030425203301.GU45035@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA9925E.30201@potentialtech.com> References: <20030424214413.GC90097@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20030425091950.GA558@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <3EA92FF1.30809@potentialtech.com> <20030425184813.GA674@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <448ytye5xj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3EA9925E.30201@potentialtech.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 25), Bill Moran said:
> I'm going to repeat myself here:
> ntpdate is depreciated. The functionality in it is duplicated by
> ntpd. It shouldn't even be in the 5.0 tree. I'm considering filing a
> pr to request that it be removed. Opinions?
ntpdate has two nice features:
1 - It runs in under a second. This is useful during the startup
sequence, so you know all of your daemons come up with the right
time. "ntpd -q" took 3 and 5 1/2 minutes to return my prompt on
tests on two different machines.
2 - It accepts IP numbers on the commandline, so you don't need a
config file to just get your time synched while you're setting a
machine up or just want to test.
Dave Mills has also deprecated the manpages, but enough people find
them useful that FreeBSD and Debian still ship them.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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