[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#478655: Bug#478655: ntp: other solution

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:14:02PM +0400, Vladmimir Stavrinov wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-4
> Followup-For: Bug #478655
> 
> 
> You don't should touch /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate as it will be
> rewritten on upgrade. 

It's a conffile, so if you make changes to it, it will be asked what you
want to do.

> There is right way to solve such type of problems to
> set options in /etc/default. In this case edit /etc/default/ntpdate to
> set variable:
> 
> NTPOPTIONS="-u"
> 
> This direct ntpdate to use an unprivileged port.

Which has nothing to do with his problem.


Kurt