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From: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Re: bin/1968: rdate(8) implementation (from NetBSD)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1968; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
To: cracauer@cons.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/1968: rdate(8) implementation (from NetBSD)
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:05:51 -0700

 cracauer@cons.org wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         1968
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       FreeBSD has no rdate(8), here's one
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov  6 07:20:02 PST 1996
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Martin Cracauer
 > >Organization:
 > private
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
 > >Environment:
 > 
 > All FreeBSD versions
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > FreeBSD has no rdate(8). While NTP is probably better, I like to have
 > a utility around that can synchronize 'ad hoc' to a given host.
 > 
 > I can imagine the following situations where rdate(8) may be better
 > than NTP:
 > - You want to synchronize to a host whose clock is just wrong, but you
 >   don't care for the correct time, just it has to be the same on
 >   a second machine you are root on.
 > - In an environment where I know one host has a perfect clock, I just
 >   add an rdate run to the crontab and don't set up NTP at all.
 > 
 > Therefore, I request to add rdate(8) to FreeBSD as an addition to
 > NTP.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > shell$ rdate gatekeeper.dec.com
 > rdate: not found
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > This is rdate(8) from NetBSD, including one C source file, a manual
 > page in source format and a Makefile.
 > 
 > You will have to make cosmetic changes I don't know about to add this
 > to FreeBSD, probably under src/usr.sbin/rdate/. Please remember to let
 > the copyright of the original author (Christos Zoulas) intact. I have
 > nit changed the code.
 > 
 > I have tested that this source not only compiles on my FreeBSD
 > machines, it also sets the time right and the time is reflected to the
 > system hardware clock (no wonder :-).
 > 
 > 
 >                       Name: rdate.tar.gz
 >        Part 1.2       Type: Unix Tape Archive (application/x-tar)
 >                   Encoding: x-uuencode
 > 
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 
 When you say NTP do you mean xntpd or just the protocol?
 ntpdate(8) does one time clock synchronization using NTP.
 Does rdate use something other than NTP?
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