On 31/10/06 07:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-10-31 at 05:55 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Do not use the ntp daemon unless your connection is permanent.
ntpd -q does the same thing as ntpdate. See also my second note to John Anderson.
I now that.
But instead, I use "rcntp ntptimeset", and I let SuSE decide which one to use. Suposedly ntpdate was going to be retired years ago, but it is still there.
It will be retired when it is retired, but that looks to me like it will only be some time in the infinite future (or after the sun leaves the main sequence, which amounts to about the same thing :-) ). For SuSE it won't be any kind of problem. For some time, they have stored executable names in variables, eg. in this case 'NTPDATE_BIN="/usr/sbin/ntpdate"' which greatly simplifies any changes to the package -- just change ntpdate to "ntpd -q" in one place, and it is done.