[wellylug] NTP

[Cliff Pratt]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> 
>> Quoting David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> It has NOTHING to do with Gentoo ... it's from the
>> maintainer of ntp
> 
> 
> Well, you didn't say, and your first response was (deliberately?) 
> ambigious so I was only asking. I inferred from what you were saying 
> that Gentoo is your distro of choice and you were surprised it had 
> chosen ntpdate as it's default.
> 
>> ...
>> After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program may be retired.
> 
> 
> Ah, interesting. I already knew about -q but had forgotten about it. 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
ntpd -q doesn't set the clock if it is too far out. If it is too far out 
it exits silently (and writes a log record if so configured). If it 
adjust the clock it prints a 'slew' message. ntpd -q won't run if the 
ntpd daemon is already running.

Cheers,

Cliff