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

[Marc Glisse]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

>> 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.

ntpdate was installed, but for some reason I was stuck with version 
1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-2 and apt-get did not propose to upgrade and I did not have 
a ntpdate binary. Now I have upgraded and the file is there, so it should 
work better. I will shut the computer down tonight and check tomorrow.

I was left with the impression that when ntp was installed, it was useless 
to install ntpdate. However, even with the -g option, ntp refuses to step 
4 years, it requires the -q option to convince it to do so.

-- 
Marc Glisse