Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Bruce A. Mallett" <bam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I'm seeing an ordering problem in that ntp won't set the system
clock on boot because:
  1) Yast stores the time server's name and not its IP address in
/etc/ntp.conf
  2) My system gets its IP via dhcpd
  3) ntp fails to resolve the IP address via DNS for the ntp server
named in /etc/ntp.conf because ...
  4) dhcpd does not modify /etc/resolv.conf until *after*
/etc/init.d/ntp is run


FWIW: I've eth0 controlled by ifplugd.

I believe that this is demonstrated by doing:
  egrep -i 'dhcp|ntp' /var/log/messages

which yields the following:
---
Nov  3 15:20:20 tornado ntpdate[5292]: can't find host louie.udel.edu
Nov  3 15:20:20 tornado ntpdate[5292]: no servers can be used, exiting
Nov  3 15:20:20 tornado ntpd[5365]: ntpd 4.2.0a@xxxxxxxx Fri Sep  9
17:17:17 UTC 2005 (1)
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: precision = 3.000 usec
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: Listening on interface wildcard,
0.0.0.0#123
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: Listening on interface wildcard, ::#123
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: kernel time sync status 0040
Nov  3 15:20:21 tornado ntpd[5365]: frequency initialized -1.291 PPM
from /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
Nov  3 15:20:25 tornado modify_resolvconf: Service dhcpcd modified
/etc/resolv.conf. See info block in this file
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showing /etc/resolv.conf being modified *after* ntp runs.