Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:50:31 +1000 From: "John Marshall" <John.Marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Add ntpdate_hosts to rc.conf Message-ID: <9F7B653A50CF3D45A92C05401046239B059A76@rwsrv06.rw2.riverwillow.net.au>
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> Is there a reason you are using ntpdate rather than ntpd? ntpdate is=20 > supposedly deprecated and ntpd can do what ntpdate does: >=20 > -q Exit the ntpd just after the first time the clock is set. This > behavior mimics that of the ntpdate(8) program, which is to be > retired. The -g and -x options can be used with this option. >=20 > --Alex Perhaps a better question, along the same lines, would be, Why does the FreeBSD RC system use ntpdate? If the idea is to disappear the ntpdate phase from startup, then let's ditch it and add the -g flag as default for ntpd_flags. If ntpdate is staying, for the time being, then it can't hurt to add a missing defaults variable, can it? John.
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