No thanks.
I talked with a few people like this, and people who want to use rdate should
be using it as rdate -n probably, and in that case, they should use ntpd -s
instead.
rdate is not a daemon.
> The new rc.d system does not make use of the rdate_flags variable in
> rc.conf. Something like this could go in /etc/rc.d/rdate:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> daemon="/usr/sbin/rdate"
>
> . /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
>
> rc_check=NO
> rc_reload=NO
> rc_restart=NO
> rc_stop=NO
>
> rc_cmd $1
>
>
> And then the following applied to /etc/rc:
>
> Index: rc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v
> retrieving revision 1.385
> diff -u -r1.385 rc
> --- rc 11 Jul 2011 17:20:09 -0000 1.385
> +++ rc 18 Jul 2011 07:09:33 -0000
> @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
> make_keys
>
> echo -n 'starting early daemons:'
> -start_daemon syslogd ldattach pflogd named nsd ntpd isakmpd iked sasyncd
> +start_daemon syslogd ldattach pflogd named nsd rdate ntpd isakmpd iked
> sasyncd
> echo '.'
>
> if [ X"${ipsec}" != X"NO" ]; then
