Quote by r0lf: "The NTP code has seen numerous security vulnerabilities and we have to assume that ntpdate is not receiving the same scrutiny anymore when compared to NTPd."
Sorry r0lf, but that's laughable. Do you really want people to run a fully featured (your wording: vulnerable) NTP daemon just to do s.th. like this (ntpdate -u HOSTNAME >>/var/log/messages 2>&1) one a day within a "/etc/cron.hourly/ntp"? Don't get me wrong -- I agree with you on the upstream-part of your statement, but I disagree when it comes to bloat systems unnecessarily. Once OS used to be simple, only containing things which their operators needed. Why force them into running daemons the don't really have demand for? I think "ntpd -qg" is the only option, although far from perfect. https://twitter.com/TRONDELTA/status/546138511284658177 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583994 Title: Consider replacing ntpdate calls by 'ntpd -g' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ntp/+bug/583994/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
