On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:50:27 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
I am afraid if I turn on ntp daemon, it causes long delays at boot if net connection isn't available.
Unless something waits for ntpd to be started, that should not be the case. There is probably some clever systemctl command to tell you if anything depends on ntpd.
Per and all others: Thank you for your suggestions. I will try first setup ntpd in yast and see if it affects bootup time. In the meantime I will look into network manager. I haven't used network manager so far because I preferred ifconfig and kinternet. Kinternet has been removed in oS 13.2, eventually I have to switch to nm, I guess. Chrony sounds interesting, I will investigate it too. I have another question. In openSUSE 13.1 yast -> Network services -> NTP configuration -> Start NTP Daemon section there is an option "Synchronize without Daemon". Does this set up a chron job running sntp at given intervals? (There's no ntpd in oS 13.1, it has been replaced by sntp.) Maybe this would be the best choice. Yast help doesn't say anything about it, but it says: Start NTP Daemon Select whether to start the NTP daemon now and on every system boot. The NTP daemon resolves host names when initializing. Your network connection must be started before the NTP daemon starts. That's why I thought setting up the daemon may cause delays at boot. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org