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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Pierre Jarillon at 11/02/13 14:34 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> Le lundi 11 f&#233;vrier 2013 13:57:52, Johnny A. Solbu a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I have a few setups where running an ntp daemon is undesired, yet I need to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> periodically manually set the clock. I have two laptops which is off most
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of the time, and when I do use them I don't always have a network
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> connection. So I need to set the clock manually using ntpdate when I do
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> have a connection.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> If it disappears I will miss it, and most likely look for a replacement, if
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> there is one.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> According my reply to Colin, ntpd -g  does the same job than ntpdate.
</I>&gt;<i> The option -g is now used by default in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Perhaps a script &quot;ntpdate&quot; executing  `ntpd -g` could be useful?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I have also a question about ntp-wait : I have read its code (perl) but I 
</I>&gt;<i> don't understand what is its use.
</I>
In theory it's meant to wait until the time is stable, and holds up
time-sync.target accordingly.  Thus any other systemd unit that is
ordered &quot;After=time-sync.target&quot; will be delayed until after ntp-wait
has exited.

time-sync.target is meant to be a generic name and thus any units that
need such ordering should use it and not ntp-wait.service directly
(other ntp implementations may achieve the same result, but with
different units).

I'm not overly sure we actually have anything ordered after
time-sync.target anyway, but that's why it exists (to the best of my
understanding anyway)

Col


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