Comment 4 for bug 1125726

Thanks Thomas.

I'm not sure what to do with this bug now though. Do you think you could distil your problem down to a failure case that applies generally? Or should we just leave this bug as a wishlist item to improve the ntp/ntpdate interaction? I guess the latter would need to be forwarded to Debian, as it would be awkward to diverge from them significantly on this.

I don't really understand why ntpdate can't just bind to an unprivileged port, leave ntpd alone, and thus not need any interaction. It seems to have a -u option to do this. Perhaps there's something I'm missing.