[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#542602: Surely ntpdate is unnecessary (if we have ntpd)

[paul.szabo at sydney.edu.au]

See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/288905
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1125726
 
The way I read "man ntpd" (on Debian wheezy), we should replace ntpdate
by "ntpd -q"; and if we are going to run ntpd then ntpdate is
unnecessary anyway. If we have (or are going to have) ntpd, then we
should simply skip /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate; seeing how that depends
on NTPSERVERS in /etc/ntp.conf or somesuch, I do not see that
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is ever any use.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia