Robert Connolly wrote:
> Hello. In the blfs-bootscript for ntpd, why is "ntpd -gqx" executed directly, 
> instead of "loadproc /usr/sbin/ntpd -gqx"?

That sets the current time unconditionally and exits.  It does not start
  the ntpd daemon.  The next line does.

> 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?

Yes, there needs to be a conditional there for systems that don't get a
network connection right away.  It would take some tweaking by the user
or perhaps we could put something into /etc/sysconfig to tell it what
interface to check for a connection.

  -- Bruce
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