<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>> The man page says ntpdate should run hourly, but the package does not supply</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>> a cronjob</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>Thanks for the contribution.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>I can't do that by default -- some people run ntpd, some are behind</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>dial-up network connections, ...</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">>Your script is helpful though, I'll include it (disabled).</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Any ETA for its inclusion?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Might I also suggest using debconf to control whether it's installed to run {hourly/daily/never(disabled)}?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">--rich</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>