Hello Peter, I perfectly understand what you mean, but as you also mentioned, you are referring to ntpdate as if it was possible to be in conflict with any software provided by time-daemon, while note being a daemon anyway. I consider that the description is both, relatively generic and straight forward to a function or service, which in my opinion, in this case is the main goal. Let's consider a very very plain and simple shell script (or in-your-favorite-scripting-language ;-) ), which runs into a loop and cycles a ntpdate software checking for time deviation, wouldn't it be a candidate for a 'time-daemon' package provider? I do consider it will perfectly suit as it servers the purpose of getting a system time-synced, Ok Ok, in a completely roughly fashion, but it somehow does. Please reconsider the remotion of this virtual-package. Cheers, Dererk -- BOFH excuse #361: Communist revolutionaries taking over the server room and demanding all the computers in the building or they shoot the sysadmin. Poor misguided fools.
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