That's bad. It doesn't appear to address the -q option of ntpdate.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Daniel McDonald
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:49 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Ntpdate deprecated
Running xymon 4.3.13 on SuSe ES 11 SP 3, the ntp test isn't working:
Fri Jan 10 08:21:02 2014 ntp ok
Service ntp on ns6.aelabad.net is OK (up)
Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 10.1.9.51 2>&1
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To
quote the upstream ntp developers:
"The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon
itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will
retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."
Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
for further information.
You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an
inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.
The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.
Specifically
sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org
is equivalent to
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.
sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid
sntp: Permission denied
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Daniel J McDonald, CISSP # 78281