Bug 245408
| Summary: | ntpdate man page out of date | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Matthew Booth <mbooth> |
| Component: | ntp | Assignee: | Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 4.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0678 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-07-24 19:34:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Yes, default is 4, the man page should be fixed. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0678.html |
Description of problem: I noticed that the ntpdate performed by ntp's init script against a hardware NTP appliance always failed. The appliance uses version 3 of the NTP protocol. The man page for ntpdate says: -o version Specify the NTP version for outgoing packets as the integer version, which can be 1 or 2. The default is 3. This allows ntpdate to be used with older NTP versions. When I modified the script to call 'ntpdate -o 3' it worked just fine. According to the man page, that should have been a no-op. I'm guessing that the default is now version 4, but the manpage never got updated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Originally spotted in RHEL 4 U4 (don't have version number to hand) Confirm man page is the same in ntp-4.2.2p1-5.el5.i386