[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#552204: ntpdate does not read servers from its config

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: ntpdate
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Dear maintainers,

it seems, ntpdate does not read the servers out of its config in
/etc/default.

Giving the single command "ntpdate" should work, but I get "no servers
found", while doing "ntpdate ptbtime1.ptb.de" is correctly working.

I also checked my config file, tried either names or IP, but no effect. This
is my config:

# The settings in this file are used by the program ntpdate-debian, but not
# by the upstream program ntpdate.

# Set to "yes" to take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp,
# so you only have to keep it in one place.
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no

# List of NTP servers to use  (Separate multiple servers with spaces.)
# Not used if NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is yes.
NTPSERVERS="ptbtime1.ptb.de ptbtime2.ptb.de ptbtime3.ptb.de"

# Additional options to pass to ntpdate
NTPOPTIONS=""

I found no error in it, do you?

Best regards

Hans