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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> 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?

You could install ntpdate, which should do what you expect.

But ntp itself also is already started with -g by default.  In
/etc/default/ntp NTPD_OPTS default to "-g".

So I have no idea what your problem really is.


Kurt