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
