On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:01:12PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: ntpdate
> Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-9
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I use the following in /etc/default/ntpdate with success:
>
> NTPSERVERS="$(sed -rne 's/^server ([-_.[:alnum:]]+)$/\1/p'
> /etc/ntp.conf 2>/dev/null || echo echo {0,1,2,3}.debian.pool.ntp.org)"
> # override:
> #NTPSERVERS="time.ethz.ch"
>
> This works like a charm and I now can manage the servers only in
> ntp.conf. If we now pump up ntpdate to read default servers from
> here, all's well.
Currently it's possible to install ntpdate without having an
ntp.conf (which is part of ntp-server). But the plan is to merge
those packages again, so something like this might be a good idea.
Kurt
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