= Proposed Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ntpdate Change owner(s): Michael Harris <MikeDawg (at) gmail (dot) com> ntpdate is slowly being depricated. STIG enhancements for RHEL 6 penalize systems that make use of ntpdate. Also documentation from the NSA Hardening Guidelines as well as CIS Hardening documentation recommends disabling the use of ntpd as a full-time daemon. == Detailed description == ntpdate is slowly being depricated in favor of ntpd. DoD STIGs now penalize for the use of ntpdate on Red Hat Enterprise systems. I would like to "modernize" the ntpdate utility to do two things. First, I would like to get rid of the dependency of ntpdate, in favor of ntpd. Second, I would like to add a set time and/or randomized time for ntpd to check for time updates (as configured by the user in /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate). I'm thinking of using ntpd with the -q option to immediately exit the daemon after it runs. == Scope == Proposal owners: Need to re-engineer the startup task for ntpdate ( /etc/init.d/ntpdate, NOT /usr/sbin/ntpdate ); or figure out if this is something that is more easily created via a cron job. Format /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate to accept additional options, as discussed above. Other developers: None Release engineering: None Policies and guidelines: None _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
