[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0062 Replace ntpdate calls with ntpd

[Petr Viktorin]

On 09/02/2013 05:05 PM, Ana Krivokapic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch addresses tickethttps://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3797.
>

Thanks! I have a question.

> -        # retry several times -- logic follows /etc/init.d/ntpdate
> -        # implementation
> +        # retry several times
>           for retry in range(0, 3):

What's the reason to try several times? Is it still necessary with ntpd?
I checked /etc/init.d/ntpdate in RHEL (since Fedora doesn't have it any 
more) and I didn't see any repeating.

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Petr³