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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That’s bad. It doesn’t appear to address the –q option of ntpdate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel McDonald<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 10, 2014 8:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Ntpdate deprecated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Running xymon 4.3.13 on SuSe ES 11 SP 3, the ntp test isn’t working:<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Fri Jan 10 08:21:02 2014 ntp ok<br>
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Service ntp on ns6.aelabad.net is OK (up)<br>
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Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 10.1.9.51 2>&1<br>
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
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The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To<br>
quote the upstream ntp developers:<br>
<br>
"The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon<br>
itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will<br>
retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."<br>
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Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and<br>
<a href="http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate">http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate</a><br>
for further information.<br>
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You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an<br>
inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.<br>
<br>
The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.<br>
Specifically<br>
sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org<br>
is equivalent to<br>
ntpdate pool.ntp.org<br>
<br>
For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.<br>
sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid<br>
sntp: Permission denied<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-- <br>
Daniel J McDonald, CISSP # 78281</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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