Your message dated Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:48:03 -0800
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and subject line Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#515702: Bug#515702: ntpdate: "no
servers can be used" with default configuration
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regarding ntpdate: "no servers can be used" with default configuration
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Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8
Severity: normal
The default configuration shipped with ntpdate is NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes, but
a blank /etc/ntp.conf file. ntpdate does not depend on the ntp package, which
distributes a non-blank /etc/ntp.conf
The ntpdate-debian script works great after manually setting
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no, or creating a /etc/ntp.conf. However if ntpdate-debian
is run without manual reconfiguration, using just the defaults, it results in
"no servers can be used, exiting"
Would it not be better to distribute the default ntpdate configuration with
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no, or distribute a working ntp.conf? so ntpdate-debian
works even without manual reconfiguration?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:35 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> He says he somehow ended up with a blank /etc/ntp.conf file, which
> shouldn't happen.
Thanks Kurt, on further investigation I realize that the ntpdate package
does not distribute an ntp.conf file, blank or otherwise. I think the
blank ntp.conf file I observe is a symptom of bug #397648, which has
been forwarded upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449267
Unfortunately neither bug #397648 nor the upstream bug show any recent
activity : (
After deleting the blank ntp.conf file and without manually
reconfiguring /etc/default/ntpdate, I can run ntpdate-debian
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