On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp > > protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making > > ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol > > and i dont think all ntp servers also open/support the time protocol. > > rdate also supports the ntp protocol. From the man page: > -n Use SNTP (RFC 2030) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol.
And JFYI, since Lenny Debian Installer uses rdate to update the system time during installs (rdate -o 123 -nvv "$server") and we've not seen any issues with that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org