handbook/network-servers: a note about ntpdate might be added

Taras Korenko ds at ukrhub.net
Fri Nov 11 22:36:04 UTC 2011


  Hi, folks.
  According to [1], the ntpdate utility is to be retired from &os;.  This info
might also be reflected as a note in '30.10.3.1 Basic Configuration' of [2].
  I hope that the position of insertion is correct, but my wording definitely
requires a lot of polishing :-/

  handbook/network-servers/chapter.sgml,v 1.138
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  5306	      <sect3>
  5307		<title>Basic Configuration</title>
  5308		<indexterm><primary>ntpdate</primary></indexterm>
  5309	
                <note>
                  <para>The following information about &man.ntpdate.8; is still
                    applicable, but keep in mind that the ntpdate utility is to
                    be retired soon from &os;.</para>
                </note>

  5310		<para>If you only wish to synchronize your clock when the
  5311		  machine boots up, you can use &man.ntpdate.8;.  This may be
  ....
  5328	      </sect3>
  5329	
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1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntpdate
2. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ntp.html

-- 
  Best regards,
  Taras Korenko



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