https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671565 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671565#c0 Summary: ntpdate - the sntp alternative is completely bogus. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: per@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 If you attempt to set the system time using ntpdate, it displays a warning about ntpdate being deprecated along with a suggestion to use sntp: The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate. Specifically sntp -p no -r pool.ntp.org is equivalent to ntpdate pool.ntp.org However, the -p option means "use syslog" and takes no argument and the -r option does not exist. Also, very reasonably, the ntpdate script tries to fall back to sntp, but again the options are completely bogus: /usr/sbin/sntp -F -P no -r $1 There is no -F option. There is no -P option and the lowercase -p doesn't take an argument. There is no -r option. A working alternative is simply "sntp <server>". Reproducible: Always -- 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.