On 05-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Ross said: > > There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp > > package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in > > sync with another clock continuously. > > Right, but, as I said in my original question, ntpdate is a package unto > itself. I don't know about the xntp package (according to my machines, it > doesn't exist), but the ntp package recommends the ntpdate package. > > So if netdate is in one of the standard/base networking packages and netdate > is identical to ntpdate, why does the ntpdate package exist? > OK. You must be running potato, because ntpdate is not a seperate package in slink but part of xntp3.
Sorry for the confusion. Maybe the difference is that ntpdate can only connect to NTP (network time protocol) servers, while most (all?) UNIX machines run a different service which netdate connects to. I think this is what is happening after reading the respective docs. Pete