Time Problem in 5.0

[Bill Moran]

Lord Sith wrote:
> ntpd only claims to mimic ntpdate in functionality.
> 
> I'm not excited about the prospect of having another daemon running with 
> root priveldges on a known port for something that only needs to be run 
> maybe two or three times a day.

Then run it once a day from cron with the -q option.

> 
>> From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com>
>> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0
>> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:54:06 -0400
>>
>> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo at ieee.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> | Also, ntpdate is depreciated.  You should be using ntpd with the
>>>> | proper switches/configuration.
>>>>     ntpdate was working *perfectly* with
>>>>     4.7R,4.8-Stable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So?  That's a significantly different version.
>>>
>>> Are you *sure* you want to be running 5.0?  It doesn't sound like 
>>> you're much of a debugger yourself, and it's not
>>> as though 5.x is recommended for anybody else yet...
>>
>>
>> I'm going to repeat myself here:
>> ntpdate is depreciated.  The functionality in it is duplicated by ntpd.
>> It shouldn't even be in the 5.0 tree.  I'm considering filing a pr to
>> request that it be removed.  Opinions?

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Bill Moran
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