https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699724 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699724#c0 Summary: ntpdate was replaced with a dud script Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: volker3204@paradise.net.nz QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.6; Linux) KHTML/4.6.0 (like Gecko) SUSE ntpdate spits out: "The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will retrieve the current time and set it accordingly." This is nonsense. Please explain what provides ntpdate -q (and ntpdate -qu). Nothing does. There is a reason the ntp developers still ship ntpdate. This is really annoying and wasted heaps of my time, thinking the ntp developers removed the program and not some not-so-clever rpm packager. Nothing is stopping /etc/init*/* from not using ntpdate, but it's still a good debugging/investigation tool. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: ntpdate is expected to remain until the ntp developers remove it. Until then feel free to provide a warning, but make sure the program remains available. Problem was introduced with openSUSE 11.1 at the latest. No doubt it's still in 11.5Mx. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.