Package: ntpdate Version: 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch --- Please enter the report below this line. --- With ntp installed and /etc/default/ntpdate entry: NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes
The command: /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian -v -q gives: no servers can be used, exiting This is because ntpdate-debian is looking for server entries with: sed -rne 's/^(servers?|peer)... The attached patch adds pool to correctly pick up the pool entries sed -rne 's/^(servers?|peer|pool)... And a correct result from: /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian -v -q --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 Debian Release: 9.0 990 testing httpredir.debian.org 500 unstable httpredir.debian.org 500 stable-updates httpredir.debian.org 500 stable security.debian.org 500 stable httpredir.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ========================-+-=========== netbase | 5.4 libc6 (>= 2.17) | libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) | Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty.
diff --git a/debian/ntpdate-debian b/debian/ntpdate-debian index e76d5ab..d9d1792 100644 --- a/debian/ntpdate-debian +++ b/debian/ntpdate-debian @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if [ "$NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF" = yes ]; then fi done if [ -n "$file" ]; then - NTPSERVERS=$(sed -rne 's/^(servers?|peer)[[:space:]]+(-[46][[:space:]]+)?([-_.:[:alnum:]]+).*$/\3/p' "$file" | grep -v '^127\.127\.') || [ $? -le 1 ] + NTPSERVERS=$(sed -rne 's/^(servers?|peer|pool)[[:space:]]+(-[46][[:space:]]+)?([-_.:[:alnum:]]+).*$/\3/p' "$file" | grep -v '^127\.127\.') || [ $? -le 1 ] fi fi
