Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>:
> The Debian man page for ntpdate has this BUGS section:
> The slew adjustment is actually 50% larger than the measured offset,
> since this (it is argued) will tend to keep a badly drifting clock more
> accurate. This is probably not a good idea and may cause a troubling
> hunt for some values of the kernel variables tick and tickadj.
>
> These days, ntpdate is just a wrapper around ntpdig. The NTPsec man page
> for ntpdig does not give any reason to think the slew is "50% larger".
>
> Can I assume that ntpdig's slewing is correct, and thus remove that BUGS
> section for ntpdate?
Yes. That language is clearly wrong.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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