Bug#376295: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#376295: ntpdate doesn't work

[Kurt Roeckx]

severity 376295 serious
thanks

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:47:14PM +0000, christophpfister at bluemail.ch wrote:
> Package: ntpdate
> Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1
> 
> I'm playing around with a minimal debian installation and I get 
> that:
> 
> $ /etc/init.d/ntpdate start
> Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError : Servname not
> supported for ai_socktype
> .
> 
> Installing inetutils-inetd solved the problem so there seems to be 
> a missing dependency.

My first guess is that it's missing /etc/services which is
in netbase.


Kurt