[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#422347: Bug#422347: can't get ntpq without ntpd

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Thu Apr 3 19:52:11 UTC 2008


Josip Rodin said:

>On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:04:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> I had the ntp package because I wanted the ntpq utility
>
>Now I found that I also have use for the the ntpdc utility on a machine
>where openntpd suffices as the server.
>
>In general, all this generic NTP client software that doesn't depend on
>a NTP server on localhost needs to be split out.

The same binary is both the "NTP client" _and_ the "NTP server".

If you do want to separate out the utilities the resulting package
should be named ntp-utilities.

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