[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#545610: Bug#545610: ntp uses lockfile-create but does not depend on it or recommends package lockfile-progs

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Tue Sep 8 13:48:59 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:43 +0200, janning wrote:
> /etc/init.d/ntp uses lockfile-create which is in package lockfile-progs. But lockfile-progs is not recommended nor does
> ntp depends on it.
> 
> If you have ntpdate installed togeather with ntp both rely on locking /var/lock/ntpdate which does not work if lockfile-progs is not installed.

ntpdate recommends lockfile-progs.







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