ntpdate deprecated

[Peter Welter]

Today, I discovered the following for the ntp-test on our Xymon server:

Service ntp on xymon is OK (up)


Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 132.229.84.242 2>&1

       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more.  To

quote the upstream ntp developers:

  "The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon
  itself.  If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will
  retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."

Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and
  http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
for further information.

You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an
inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.

The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.

Specifically
  sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org
is equivalent to
  ntpdate pool.ntp.org

For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.

sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid
sntp: Permission denied


http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate#Set_the_time_before_running_ntpd


I always thought I needed to run this ntp-test to make sure the time is
correct on the central monitor server, to make sure that the time on other
monitored hosts is checked correctly.

Should I

- change the NTPDATE="ntpdate"-location in /etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg to
NTPDATE="sntp -u" to make it work again?

- disable the ntp-test since because it is useless for checking the correct
time on monitored hosts.

Regards, Peter
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