32091 – Wrong description of rdate

Bug 32091 - Wrong description of rdate

Summary: Wrong description of rdate

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-10-27 02:33 UTC by Kolbjørn Barmen
Modified:	2003-10-27 15:53 UTC (History)
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Description Kolbjørn Barmen 2003-10-27 02:33:46 UTC

The description of rdate states: 
 
rdate uses the NTP server of your choice to syncronize/show the current time 
 
Well, this is plain wrong - rdate does _NOT_ use NTP. 
From the manual: 
 
DESCRIPTION 
       Rdate uses TCP or UDP to retrieve the current time of another machine 
using using the protocol described in RFC 868. 
 
Now - RFC 868 (ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/rfc/rfc868.txt) describes usage of the 
old time protocol that uses port 37, both UDP and TCP. (unlike NTP which uses 
port 123) 
 

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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-10-27 15:53:02 UTC

thanks for the corrections, now in cvs :)