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[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thursday, November 03, 2005 at 15:51:42, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:

> 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.

Thats the "problem" (its not really a problem its your misunderstanding
of ifplugd ;). The interface is up as soon as ifplugd is started. If you
want to have ntp started/restarted after the interface is connected you
need to do so in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifservices-<device description>

Like

$ cd /etc/sysconfig/network 
$ ls ifcfg-eth-id-00:0c:6e:4d:59:39 
ifcfg-eth-id-00:0c:6e:4d:59:39
$ mkdir ifservices-eth-id-00:0c:6e:4d:59:39
$ cd ifservices-eth-id-00:0c:6e:4d:59:39
$ ln -s ../../init.d/ntp S10ntp
$ ln -s ../../init.d/ntp K90ntp

Henne

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