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/