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

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

> From: awilliam at redhat.com
> 
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> 
> > > e. Why isn't this functionality being added to chrony, rather 
> than bouncing us back to ntpd?
> > 
> > Which functionality exactly? Both ntpd and chronyd (in default
> > configuration) let the kernel sync the RTC. 
> 
> The ability to invoke chronyd in a way that mimics ntpdate. This thread
> has turned up that you can invoke *ntpd* in this way: ntpd -q -g -x. But
> no-one has yet provided an equivalent invocation for chronyd, and I
> could not figure one out from the manpage.
> 
> Aside from anything else, anaconda requires something like this to be
> available in order to check whether an NTP server is valid and
> available: a simple, one-off command which will 'return true' in some
> obvious way if the specified server exists and responds correctly, and
> 'return false' if it doesn't. For now it is using ntpdate; I suppose we
> could switch it to ntpd, but it would make an awful lot more sense if
> chronyd could do this.

I'm on the chrony mailing list if there's any questions you would like 
forwarded.


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John Florian
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