On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:10, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Crazy idea: shut off all the daemons that need network (from normal > > init processing) and then only spawn them when appropriate from > > NetworkManager. > > FYI, I just started a thread on this in comp.protocols.time.ntp, > gateway'd to the ntp-questions mailing list: The idea was to come up with a generic solution rather than escalating it upstream to ntp. Sendmail has similar problems. Postfix doesn't start unless listed interfaces are active. All of these require a re-look at the relationships and dependancies of the scripts found in /etc/init.d/ NetworkManager or a similar tool would be beneficial to "guide" this portion of the bootup process. -- -jeff