F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

[Jaroslav Reznik]

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in 
favor of ntpd =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ntpdate

Change owner(s): Michael Harris <MikeDawg (at) gmail (dot) com> 

ntpdate is slowly being depricated. STIG enhancements for RHEL 6 penalize 
systems that make use of ntpdate. Also documentation from the NSA Hardening 
Guidelines as well as CIS Hardening documentation recommends disabling the use 
of ntpd as a full-time daemon. 

== Detailed description ==
ntpdate is slowly being depricated in favor of ntpd. DoD STIGs now penalize 
for the use of ntpdate on Red Hat Enterprise systems. I would like to 
"modernize" the ntpdate utility to do two things.

First, I would like to get rid of the dependency of ntpdate, in favor of ntpd.

Second, I would like to add a set time and/or randomized time for ntpd to 
check for time updates (as configured by the user in /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate).

I'm thinking of using ntpd with the -q option to immediately exit the daemon 
after it runs. 

== Scope ==
Proposal owners: Need to re-engineer the startup task for ntpdate ( 
/etc/init.d/ntpdate, NOT /usr/sbin/ntpdate ); or figure out if this is 
something that is more easily created via a cron job. Format 
/etc/sysconfig/ntpdate to accept additional options, as discussed above.

Other developers: None 
Release engineering: None 
Policies and guidelines: None