On 21.10.15 23:15, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:36:31 PM Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On debian, the first thing I've found (prompted by this thread) is the > > "ntpdate" package. Its manpage describes invocation in a startup script, > > i.e. it's an alternative to ntpd. (And won't act if an ntpd is running.) > > The Debian package ntp has the ntpd. It is built from the same source > package > as ntpdate. If you want to set the date from a cron job (or manually) then > use ntpdate. Otherwise use ntp.
Darnit, the ntp package _is_ there. Many thanks. Have purged openntpd, and substituted ntp. The only remaining oddity is that ntpdate (when I give it a whirl) still doesn't seem able to obey its own conf file, to use /etc/ntp.conf: # ntpdate -d 21 Oct 23:44:12 ntpdate[8610]: ntpdate [email protected] Fri Apr 10 19:08:07 UTC 2015 (1) 21 Oct 23:44:12 ntpdate[8610]: no servers can be used, exiting despite: # grep NTP_CONF /etc/default/ntpdate NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes and four (default) uncommented "server" lines in /etc/ntp.conf. Substituting four local servers makes no difference. It only seems to work when a server is specified on the command line. It's no showstopper, I just don't understand the failure. Erik _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
