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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:54:06 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Time Problem in 5.0
Message-ID:  <3EA9925E.30201@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <448ytye5xj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20030424214413.GC90097@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20030425091950.GA558@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <3EA92FF1.30809@potentialtech.com> <20030425184813.GA674@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <448ytye5xj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo@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?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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