On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:59:12AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
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.
How about switching to OpenNTPD?
http://www.openntpd.org/