Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(sorry i can't respond directly to alexander dalloz's posting, i have to
do it through a web browser. some day, i'll get this figured out.)
i can sympathize with alexander's question -- ntpd is clearly a daemon,
while ntpdate is a one-time "call and run" tool as he puts it. but if you
look at the man page for ntpdate under FC1, it states right up front that
ntpdate functionality is now available in ntpd, and ntpdate will eventually
be retired from the distro "after a suitable period of mourning."
fair enough. but this raises the obvious question -- is there a way to
invoke "ntpd" to emulate nptdate's one-time, sync-my-clock-RFN!!
"ntpd -q" should do the same thing as "ntpdate". Of course, a simple
scan of the man page would have revealed this.
The eqivalent in ntp.conf is "iburst servername".
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