Bug#392098: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#392098: ntpdate: init script missing in package

[Peter Eisentraut]

Richard Thrippleton wrote:
> OK. The implication is that ntp should be the longterm maintainer of
> time. Is this appropriate for a system with patchy network
> connectivity that isn't turned on a lot of the time (specifically, my
> laptop)? I thought the answer to this was "no", so I just had ntpdate
> run in a cronjob from time to time. What's the correct solution?

There are a number of options.  You could run ntpd and have ifup/ifdown 
start and stop it as appropriate.  You could run ntpd -q, which does 
about what ntpdate does.  You could run ntpdate when the network is 
brought up, or from a cron job.  Or you use rdate.

But none if this requires an ntpdate init script, as far as I can see.