On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:36:23 -0500 Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When you install a new machine? Or whenever you boot and there is a > > network problem, you will have to wait until ntp times out before > > you can do anything. Normally it doesn't bother, but when you're > > mucking about with machines you can run into this problem. > > Interesting. > > I've done plenty of installs or boots without a network and don't > recall ntp blocking the system startup, at least on Debian and > derivatives. I run it on all my computers. When you have no network on the machine ntp notes that there is no network, then it stops AFAIK. But if you have a wrong resolv.conf or something like that you get the above mentioned timeouts. Anyway, I think OpenNTP is a nice replacement although I have very little experience with it. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
