Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-04-24 13:53, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > 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.
>
> And JFYI, since Lenny Debian Installer uses rdate to update the system 
> time during installs (rdate -o 123 -nvv "$server") and we've not seen any 
> issues with that.

Something seems seriously wrong with rdate, or how I'm using it...

    # rdate -ncv -p -o 123 ntp.cox.net
    Tue Jul 21 08:52:29 CDT 2009
    rdate: adjust local clock by 24.000529 seconds

    # ntpdate -q ntp.cox.net
    server 68.0.14.76, stratum 1, offset 0.000138, delay 0.06146
    21 Jul 08:54:40 ntpdate[5494]: adjust time server 68.0.14.76
                                                 offset 0.000138 sec

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