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+* [Sec 3012] noepeer tweaks. <stenn@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3506] Service Control Manager interacts poorly with NTPD <perlinger@ntp.org>
- changed interaction with SCM to signal pending startup
* [Bug 3486] Buffer overflow in ntpq/ntpq.c:tstflags() <perlinger@ntp.org>
New macro REFID_ISTEXT() which is also used in ntpd/ntp_control.c.
* [Bug 3434] ntpd clears STA_UNSYNC on start <perlinger@ntp.org>
- applied patch by Miroslav Lichvar
-* [Sec 3012] noepeer tweaks. <stenn@ntp.org>
+* [Bug 3426] ntpdate.html -t default is 2 seconds. Leonid Evdokimov.
* [Bug 3121] Drop root privileges for the forked DNS worker <perlinger@ntp.org>
- integrated patch by Reinhard Max
* [Bug 2821] minor build issues <perlinger@ntp.org>
<img src="pic/rabbit.gif" alt="gif" align="left"><a href="http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/pictures.html">from <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>, Lewis Carroll</a>
<p>I told you it was eyeball and wristwatch.</p>
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<dt><tt>-s</tt></dt>
<dd>Divert logging output from the standard output (default) to the system <tt>syslog</tt> facility. This is designed primarily for convenience of <tt>cron</tt> scripts.</dd>
<dt><tt>-t <i>timeout</i></tt></dt>
- <dd>Specify the maximum time waiting for a server response as the value <i>timeout</i>, in seconds and fraction. The value is is rounded to a multiple of 0.2 seconds. The default is 1 second, a value suitable for polling across a LAN.</dd>
+ <dd>Specify the maximum time waiting for a server response as the value <i>timeout</i>, in seconds and fraction. The value is is rounded to a multiple of 0.2 seconds. The default is 2 seconds, a value suitable for polling across a LAN.</dd>
<dt><tt>-u</tt></dt>
<dd>Direct <tt>ntpdate</tt> to use an unprivileged port for outgoing packets. This is most useful when behind a firewall that blocks incoming traffic to privileged ports, and you want to synchronize with hosts beyond the firewall. Note that the <tt>-d</tt> option always uses unprivileged ports.
<dt><tt>-<i>v</i></tt></dt>