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Re: what happenned to netdate?



On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> "Gregory T. Norris" wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> > > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now).
> > I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to
> > date.  Doh!!!
> 	I don't see a 'netdate' package in potato either.  Could it be you
> are looking for 'ntpdate'?

Wasn't netdate removed from Debian because it had no copyright file
whatsoever and the author couldn't be tracked down?

Anyway, ntpdate is much better. Just don't go around pointing it to stratum
1 servers...

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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