[ntp:questions] Basic Question - how to verify whether a new NTP server is ready to serve time?

[David J Taylor]

Uwe Klein wrote:
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> This happened by way of LSB (http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB)
> Linux Standard Base requirements which mandated a package of name
> "*xntp*" is installed in contrast to older software by name of
> "*ntp*".
> To be LSB compliant SuSE and others renamed the _current_ ntpd
> package, associated scripts and stuff "*xntp*".
>
> example:
> SuSE 9.1 xntp-4.2.0a-23
> SuSE 9.3 xntp-4.2.0a-35
> SuSE 10.0 xntp-4.2.0a-46
> SuSE 10.1 xntp-4.2.0a-68
> SuSE 10.2 xntp-4.2.2p4-6
>
> actually these are all versions of the current ntp-4* package.
>
> uwe

I /knew/ there had to be a valid reason for hating Linux!

David