On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com> wrote: > On 8/23/10 6:10 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> What if the ntp server provided is down like in the 2nd entry above? > > Or (for who knows what reason) outgoing ICMP packets are blocked where > you have no control? > >> This problem is not easily solved. > > Understood and agreed. Again, I think that initial set of the date > shouldn't be part of the bootscript.
It's definitely not necessary and slows down the boot even when the network is immediately available. ntpd will slew the time back into sync without forcing an inital sync and will respond to the network becoming available if it's not initially there. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
