On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:01:27PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
>Package: rdate
>Version: 1.4-5
>Severity: normal
>
>I was wondering why "rdate -a" was doing nothing, until I checked the
>man page and realized it tries to use adjtimex

rdate doesn't run the adjtimex program. It uses the adjtimex 2 call,
see 'man 2 adjtimex'.

>... even when that program isn't installed.

I run 'rdate -a <host>' succesfully without having the adjtimex package
installed.

>Either adjtimex should be a dependency, or the -a option should
>recognize it isn't present and pop up an error message.

Maybe the problem is caused by something else.

Could you please trace rdate to see what calls it uses?

Thank you,

Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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