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Hi everyone! I have a not-at-all-important-but-im-curious question about NTP on SuSE. In order to keep the time on my openSuSE server at home sync'd, I use the ntpdate command: /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.illinois.edu However, when I want to force a timesync on my SLES servers at work, trying to use that command throws complaints as if I was just about to drive off a bridge: !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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. But if I try to use that sntp command on an oS box, including 13.1, it doesn't know what in the world I'm trying to do: sntp: illegal option -- P sntp - standard Simple Network Time Protocol program - Ver. 4.2.6p5 USAGE: sntp [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... \ [ hostname-or-IP ...] My question is - if ntpdate is so depreciated that SLES11 won't even touch it, why does openSuSE still use it instead of sntp? Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org