[ntp:questions] [ntp:hackers] ntpdate removal is coming
Harlan Stenn
stenn at ntp.org
Wed Dec 7 22:42:14 UTC 2011
> If ntp can do everything ntpdate can, why not make it a multi-call(?)
> program (like busybox)? "ln -s ntpd ntpdate", and it does what ntpdate
> does now when called as ntpdate.
ntpd is already plenty complicated.
ntpd does not behave exactly as ntpdate originally did.
Over time, ntpdate was used to effect two different tasks:
- set the time once, quickly
- set the time once, well
sntp can set the time once, quickly.
ntpd can set the time once, well.
Please see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate for
more information.
H
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