[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#514318: Considering the removal of ntpdate

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 23 Apr 2009, Stefan Ott wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:45, Peter Eisentraut <petere at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Nevertheless, since ntpdate used to be quite popular, I figured I'd better ask
> > here for objections.
> 
> I still use it when a system's clock is way off and I just want it to

Sorry for chiming in so late.

AFAIR there was a move to even remove ntp, now ntpdate. That is not a
good idea.

> be set to the right time, right now. I guess there are options to ntpd
> to do that, so maybe a little wrapper script (telling the user about
> the appropriate ntpd command, similar to 822-date) might be a nice
> idea.

Good option. But what about the ntp removal?

Best wishes

Norbert

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