The net-misc/ntp ebuild set up a ntp-client (boot) service with the goal to correct a heavily wrong system clock. But the used command (ntpdate) is deprecated and should be replaced by 'ntpd -gq' or 'sntp -Ss'. This is what I read here: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate Personal considerations follow. IMO, a clean way to receive the suggestion could be change the default configuration in this way: NTPCLIENT_CMD="ntpd" NTPCLIENT_OPTS="-g -q" and then introduce a ntp-wait step in the initscript. It allows also to use the ntp configuration during boot, but could make the boot process appreciably slow. A rough way could be simply change the default configuration as follow: NTPCLIENT_CMD="sntp" NTPCLIENT_OPTS="-s -S \ 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org \ 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org" It's efect is more similar to the previous one. Regards, Sergio Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge and install net-misc/ntp 2. rc-update add ntp-client boot 3. Actual Results: The initial time sinchronization is performed with the deprecated ntpdate command. Expected Results: The suggestions given at http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate are followed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21527 ***
