[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388032: ntpdate: init script throws error message if ntp is not installed

[Michael Meskes]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-2
Severity: normal

/etc/init.d/ntpdate sources /etc/default/ntpdate which accesses
/etc/ntp.conf without testing whether the file exists at all. Thus an
error message is printed everytime.

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8b-3    SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                      4.26        Basic TCP/IP networking system

ntpdate recommends no packages.

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