Re: /etc/rc.d/rpcbind requires ntpdate

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:52:51AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     Joerg, what's up with that?  We still want to support ntpdate 
:>     functionality from an RCNG perspective, it would simply call rdate
:>     now instead of ntpdate.
:
:Use ntpd for that as well. It's the default behaviour when started via rc.
:
:>     Shouldn't we add an 'rdate' RCNG script to replace the ntpdate script
:>     you removed ?
:
:I changed the rpcbind script to depend on ntpd, which is correct behaviour.
:
:Joerg

    I mean, could we support the same original RC variables for specifying h
    the remote host to pull the date from and then have the ntpd script
    deal with it ? 

    The separation of the two functions (initial data sync and ongoing 
    correction) is important from an rc.conf perspective.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>