On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 04:50:33PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Michal Privoznik wrote:On 20.09.2014 01:36, Jim Fehlig wrote:Martin Kletzander wrote:Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with systemd files, but my guess is that After=ntp-wait.service means it should be started after the time is synchronized if and only if the ntp-wait.service unit is enabled, otherwise it doesn't require it.Yes, this is my understanding too.And so is mine. The only concern I have is that syncing time on cold boot of the host may take ages.Yep, I have this concern too. So I dug a bit further and see that ntp-wait (a perl script) scrapes the output of `ntpq -c "rv 0`, waiting for leap_alarm to change to leap_none, leap_add_sec, or leap_del_sec. On my test system, this took ~16min on cold boot :-(. ntp-wait.service failed in the meantime, since it by default calls /usr/sbin/ntp-wait with options to only wait 10min.But on the other hand, it's better to start domains later and with correct time than start asap with inaccurate time. ACK then,Given the above observations, I'll wait to see if you change your mind.
What would you say to changing it to After=ntpdate.service? That way it won't wait until the clock is synchronized, but it will be started with proper time if ntpdate.service is set up to start in the default runlevel (or is it target in systemd?). I think that's a compromise that has no negative side-effects. Martin
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