On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:44:58PM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > I believe optional_all type dependencies are what you want.
Cool. > > Yes, I think splitting the ntp service may be good. At boot time one > > should want ntpdate to quickly step the clock (see its -b option). > > Subsequently, if ntpd dies one should not want ntpdate to be used at > > all in restarting ntpd. This argues for a transient service for ntpdate > > separate from ntpd, with the latter having an optional dependency on the > > former. > > Indeed, particularly since we don't need ntpdate to run each time we > restart ntpd. I've filed: 6439943 ntpdate should have its own transient service; ntp should have optional_all dep on ntpdate Nico --
