On Wednesday 02 February 2005 20:59, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.
It's actually ntpdate, executed by the startup script with a sampling of
8 packets (-p 8). ntpdate is actually supposed to be a deprecated
utility. Remove /etc/ntp/step-servers to skip the ntpdate step, which
will block the bootup process. ntpd will then be executed with the -g
parameter, which will perform ntpdate type functionality on a first
synchronization with the time servers. Subsequent syncs will use
slew/step corrections instead.
This *should* be bugzilla'd.
have fun,
--
-jeff