On 2/10/07, Robert Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello. In the blfs-bootscript for ntpd, why is "ntpd -gqx" executed directly,
> instead of "loadproc /usr/sbin/ntpd -gqx"?
Good question.
> Also, lets say I screwed my network config and the network doesn't come up...
> ntpd will sit there forever waiting for server names to resolve. Is there
> something we can do about this, like putting ntpd in the background?
Is there a timeout or something?
Here's something I added to my dhclient service script that checks
carrier status (not the same as the network being down).
Unfortunately, you need to know which interface you're using:
# check carrier status (cable)
carrier=`cat /sys/class/net/${1}/carrier 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$carrier" ] || [ "$carrier" -eq 0 ]; then
boot_mesg "No carrier for the ${1} interface.
Skipping dhclient..."
echo_ok
exit 0
fi
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Dan
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