[wellylug] NTP

[Cliff Pratt]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> 
>> Heh .. well, since ntpdate is on the list of the
>> "soon to be deprecated" systems I wouldn't want my
>> distro of choice to use it by default :}
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with that list. Is it a Gentoo Org list? Does it 
> indicate what will replace it? Will ntpd be extended to cope with larger 
> differences? Perhaps it has been already? Or is the package being 
> deprecated in whatever distro you choose to use but ntpdate is just 
> being moved to the ntpd package?
> 
> If there's no other better solution yet, then what's wrong with using 
> it? It works, doesn't it?
> 
It just isn't necessary.

Cheers,

Cliff