Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Simon Falsig wrote: > I've noticed that ntpdc (in Networking Tools > ntp) comes with a > startup-script > enabled and installed in /etc/init.d by default. But is it just me, or > does > having a startup-script not really make sense for ntpdc, which essentially > is > just a client application to query and control ntpd? > > In any case, the installed startup-script doesn't work, the arguments > don't seem > to make sense, and judging from the name of the script and the given > configurationfile (ntp-client in both cases), it seems to be aimed at > ntpclient > (which is a different program, available at Networking Tools > ntpclient) > instead? > > Am I overlooking something obvious here, or does this just not make sense?
I think you're right. It doesn't make sense. I suppose there could be some magic that requires ntpdc to be run once at startup, but from what I can tell from the git history, this looks like an error during refactoring. I don't think it does any harm so nobody noticed. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de
