[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

[Pierre Jarillon]

Le vendredi 22 février 2013 00:04:49, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> Hmm, actually, I'm not sure the -g argument is sensible to pass to the
> daemon process generally. It seems that if it cannot reach a server
> (i.e. no networking) then the daemon exits.
> 
> Certainly that is what I've seen here.
> 
> Also, running ntpd -qg here with a large skew seems to not actually work
> here :s

IMO, you have to open a bug report and report it upstream.
According to the documentation,  ntpd -qg = ntpdate

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