* Peter Eisentraut > The ntpdate README.Debian says: > > ntpdate is run whenever a network interface is brought up. To adjust > this behavior, the file /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate should be edited. > > That file in turn says: > > # ... Feel free to change this, especially if you regularly > # bring up new network interfaces. > > If people don't read the documentation, we can't help them.
Why would you expect me to read the documentation of the ntpdate program when it is a completely unrelated command, "ifup", that I am running? To look at it the opposite way, if I wanted to adjust my clock, I would go read the NTP documentation, not the networking documentation. And I would certainly not expect the ntpdate invocation to result in an ifup being run. > That said, the ntpdate default configuration is optimized for > a "desktop". On a "server" you would use ntpd anyway, so there is no > need for ntpdate. I think this is a reasonable compromise. I agree, but on Ubuntu ntpdate is part of the default server installation (the meta package "ubuntu-minimal" depends on it, and it's priority important). It is more exusable to mimic their behaviour in Debian if the ntpdate program isn't installed by default. -- Tore Anderson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]