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
