Ok, did some investigation: removing /etc/services (after having installed inetutils-inetd) causes ntpdate to fail, so you're correct.
(just fyi: other packages like syslog and most likely fam are also affected by that, so maybe it would make sense to communicate with each other ...) Christoph ----Ursprüngliche Nachricht---- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 01/07/2006 22:46 An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopie: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#376295: ntpdate doesn't work severity 376295 serious thanks On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:47:14PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ch wrote: > Package: ntpdate > Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1 > > I'm playing around with a minimal debian installation and I get > that: > > $ /etc/init.d/ntpdate start > Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError : Servname not > supported for ai_socktype > . > > Installing inetutils-inetd solved the problem so there seems to be > a missing dependency. My first guess is that it's missing /etc/services which is in netbase. Kurt
