[BUGS] ntpdate/ntpd at startup (was: Dovecot not starting on startup)

Jerahmy Pocott quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Thu Apr 24 10:13:41 EST 2008


On 23/04/2008, at 12:31 PM, John Marshall wrote:

> But that won't help, because it will still take several minutes  
> before ntpd
> synch's and exits - and without "-n" would clash with the real ntpd  
> startup
> attempt.
>
> I've just conducted some experiments...

Aye, it takes too long..

I'm just going to revert to using ntpdate instead of the -g flag to  
ntpd like I always used to..

If ntpdate is really going to disappear we need something better than  
the current state of things..


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