[Bug 461205] New: ntpdate -q is broken
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461205 Summary: ntpdate -q is broken Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bart.vanassche@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User Since openSUSE 11.1, ntpdate prints a message that ntpdate should no longer be used and that ntpd should be used instead. This is correct for the functionality of setting the system clock, but not correct for the functionality of querying the system clock. ntpdate -q is a convenient tool for querying the time difference between the local clock and a remote clock. While ntpdate -q worked fine with openSUSE 11.0, it doesn't work anymore in openSUSE 11.1. An example: $ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q ntp.belnet.be !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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." Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate for further information. You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf. 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 For further details please refer to the man page of sntp. sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid sntp: Permission denied -- 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.
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Marcus Meissner
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Peter Varkoly
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Ori Tzoran
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Peter Varkoly
I'm the maintainer ... not my decision to drop ntpdate True, as maintainer, you are the distro's delegate for watching this package. As such, you're in position to say "we cannot yet drop ntpdate because the functionality of sntp isn't satisfactory". I guess that by now you say "hey, but it is..."; i say no, hope you have
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