On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Istvan Gabor
2010. február 8. 12:52 napon Roger Oberholtzer
írta: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:27 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I used to use ntpdate to query the time of a given time server occasionally. 'ntpdate -q ' showed the difference between the system and server time. Now in openSUSE 11.2 ntpdate is not available anymore, it is replaced by ntpd. How can I use ntpd on command line to check the difference between server and system time without adjusting the latter one (ie. imitate -q option of ntpdate)? I have read the ntpd man page but could not find out myself how to do it.
My 11.2 system has /usr/sbin/ntpdate. Perhaps you were not root when trying to run it?
But it is not the ntpdate program:
~> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q ntp1.ptb.de !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To quote the upstream ntp developers:
"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."
If I run the above as root it invokes "ntpd -q ntp1.ptb.de", and sets the system time which I don't want yet. I just would like to see the offset.
Istvan
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