On Monday 06 November 2006 19:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. > > Every time I boot it, > > it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be > > started". > > One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from > /etc/conf.d/local-start > > local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing > is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. > > Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /etc/conf.d/local-start > and see if it works.
Actually I have this in /etc/conf.d/net:
postup() {
[...]
/etc/init.d/ntp-client start >> /var/log/net.log
return 0
}
postdown() {
[...]
/etc/init.d/ntp-client stop >> /var/log/net.log
return 0
}
--
Bo Andresen
pgpXbVz3m1nOQ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
