--On Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:05 PM +0800 Jeff Pitman
<symbiont(a)berlios.de> wrote:
It's actually ntpdate, executed by the startup script with a
sampling of
8 packets (-p 8). ntpdate is actually supposed to be a deprecated
utility. Remove /etc/ntp/step-servers to skip the ntpdate step, which
will block the bootup process. ntpd will then be executed with the -g
parameter, which will perform ntpdate type functionality on a first
synchronization with the time servers. Subsequent syncs will use
slew/step corrections instead.
This *should* be bugzilla'd.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=ntp>
I don't see anything that matches. Is this still true in FC3? (I'm still
using FC2.)