Clock synchro at bootup

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:44PM +0200, hagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got also a question concerning clock synchronisation at boot time.
> 
> I don't want to disable the connection to the server, but sometimes, 
> when I'm booting my laptop without an existing network, it is for me a 
> little bit frustrating in front of users of the "other system" to wait 
> for more than a minute until the boot process continues...;-(
> 
> Is there any option somewhere to shorten the time, the machine is 
> waiting for connection to the server?
> 
> Thxs 4 your help...

For a computer which is not always connected, chrony is probably a 
better choice for clock synchronization than ntp.  I don't think it 
interrupts the boot process.