Bug#386323: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#386323: ntpdate: no documentation or examples for configuration file

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Parsing /etc/ntp.conf seems like a great idea, although
> ideally the ntpdate package would either provide that file,
> or depend on a package which did, or at least offer some
> idea of the file's syntax. I realise it's not complex (I
> just put "server pool.ntp.org" into the file to get things
> working) but if you aren't familiar with it...

Why do you want to create an ntp.conf file, if you don't run ntpd?  The
ntpdate init script does have defaults, falling back to:
0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org 2.debian.pool.ntp.org 3.debian.pool.ntp.org

You can also override that in /etc/default/ntpdate, it is a config file.

Maybe you should try and explain what your problem is.


Kurt