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

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Jul 18 12:15:33 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > Once upon a time, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> said:
> >> 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.
> 
> > The NTP project has been trying to deprecate ntpdate for a long time
> > now,
> 
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> 
> Additionally, with systems without a realtime clock, like the raspberry
> pi,
<snip>
> Finally, for an easy fix for rebooting raspberry pi and co,


The Raspberry Pi can't run an unmodified Fedora (eg. we don't produce any binaries that
can run on its CPU). Is there supported hardware that has that problem?

Cheers


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