[Bug 3573] nptdate: missleading error message

bk: 5cc92d84vQKEvtpFsLnHzZrFHl4CUQ

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9ff845c81028eeecbd72fd587d28555bc5f781e5..a74ee271ca01626dd7872822938c3bf1b454842b 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+---
+* [Bug 3573] nptdate: missleading error message <perlinger@ntp.org>
+
 ---
 (4.2.8p13) 2019/03/07 Released by Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
 

diff --git a/ntpdate/ntpdate.c b/ntpdate/ntpdate.c
index 4cf0f6265cdaafeddfe676a9cbfdd27767465e8e..94cc1af2b79bbb1b398912e58a4bfbc1c94f48b0 100644 (file)
--- a/ntpdate/ntpdate.c
+++ b/ntpdate/ntpdate.c
@@ -339,7 +339,11 @@ ntpdatemain (
        if (!ipv6_works)
                ai_fam_templ = AF_INET;
 
-       errflg = 0;
+#ifdef HAVE_NETINFO
+       errflg = 0;             /* servers can come from netinfo */
+#else
+       errflg = (argc < 2);    /* need at least server on cmdline */
+#endif
        progname = argv[0];
        syslogit = 0;