On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Neal Becker wrote:
In FC3 ntpd has 2 problems
1) Starts too early
2) hangs
Especially if you want to use NetworkManager (which starts very late), ntpd
should be started later.
ntpd failing to start hangs the startup for about 10-15 seconds. This
shouldn't happen.
Problem is that ntpd is too dumb to know when you have a network connecction and
when you don't. NetworkManager can't be started earlier because dbus & hal
aren't started early, because they are installed in /usr and that's not
guaranteed to be mounted until somewhere in the middle of the boot process.
ntpd needs to be smarter about when it does & does not look for servers based on
whether or not there's a connection.
Dan