Florian Lohoff wrote:
> rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp
> protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making
> ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol
> and i dont think all ntp servers also open/support the time protocol.
rdate also supports the ntp protocol. From the man page:
-n Use SNTP (RFC 2030) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol.