"ntpdate" versus "ntpd"

[Rick Stevens]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   (sorry i can't respond directly to alexander dalloz's posting, i have to
> do it through a web browser.  some day, i'll get this figured out.)
> 
>   i can sympathize with alexander's question -- ntpd is clearly a daemon,
> while ntpdate is a one-time "call and run" tool as he puts it.  but if you
> look at the man page for ntpdate under FC1, it states right up front that
> ntpdate functionality is now available in ntpd, and ntpdate will eventually
> be retired from the distro "after a suitable period of mourning."
> 
>   fair enough.  but this raises the obvious question -- is there a way to
> invoke "ntpd" to emulate nptdate's one-time, sync-my-clock-RFN!!

"ntpd -q" should do the same thing as "ntpdate".  Of course, a simple
scan of the man page would have revealed this.

The eqivalent in ntp.conf is "iburst servername".
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