On 22.10.15 11:06, Trent W. Buck wrote:
If you already install ISC ntpd, just use "ntpd -q". ntpdate is for people who *don't* install an ntpd. ntpd -q has been available since at least Debian 6 (Feb 2011).
Between your words of wisdom, and the ntpd manpage:
-q Exit the ntpd just after the first time the clock is set. This behavior mimics that of the ntpdate program, which is to be retired. <<
I'm convinced. (Crikey, I've moved from sendmail to postfix, vi to vim, and SunOS to Solaris to Linux. This modernisation lark never stops.) ...
PS: re "doesn't obey it's config file", in Debian there are hooks in ISC dhclient to restart ntpd every time it gets a lease, with a custom temporary ntpd.conf. Maybe ntpdate is using that instead of /etc/ntp.conf?
I could only locate an ntpd.conf while I had openntpd installed. It doesn't exist with ntpdate and ntp installed. It is true that ntpdate uses /etc/default/ntpdate, but it has the default I mentioned upthread: On 21.10.15 23:59, Erik Christiansen wrote:
# grep NTP_CONF /etc/default/ntpdate NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes
I should have quoted the full stanza: # Set to "yes" to take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp, # so you only have to keep it in one place. NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes Ditching ntpdate obviates any need to fuss with that. Erik