[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#423162: ntpd does not really replace ntpdate at startup

[Marc Glisse]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
Severity: normal


When I shut down my computer, for some reason it looses the time and
resets it to july 2003. That has nothing to do with Debian, I know. When
I boot, ntpd is started, but it does not reset the time, I need to
manually stop it, call ntpd -g -q, then restart it. That is basically
what ntpdate used to do. Maybe ntp should provide an ntpdate init script
that does this before launching the daemon?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                5.2-2        GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8e-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                     4.29         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

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