Bugzilla – Bug 671565
ntpdate - the sntp alternative is completely bogus.
Last modified: 2011-02-13 14:05:54 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 If you attempt to set the system time using ntpdate, it displays a warning about ntpdate being deprecated along with a suggestion to use sntp: 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 However, the -p option means "use syslog" and takes no argument and the -r option does not exist. Also, very reasonably, the ntpdate script tries to fall back to sntp, but again the options are completely bogus: /usr/sbin/sntp -F -P no -r $1 There is no -F option. There is no -P option and the lowercase -p doesn't take an argument. There is no -r option. A working alternative is simply "sntp <server>". Reproducible: Always
Closing, already reported in bug 658255. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658255 ***