Time Problem in 5.0

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Apr 25 12:54:10 PDT 2003


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
Potential Technologies
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