Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:43, Peter Van Lone wrote:
using SUSE10, when I went into yast to enable the ntp client, I am warned about setting it to execute "on boot". The warning says:
"Warning! If you do not have a permanent internet connection, starting the NTP daemon can take a very long time, and the daemon might not run properly"
Huh?
When you boot and start up ntp, it will try to go out and set the time and if you don't have a connection, it is going to hang there for a timeout.
Not good.
I have watched the boot process, with ntpd enabled and no network connection. The timeout isn't very long, perhaps a few seconds. It doesn't have much effect on booting. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com