clock synchronization with ntp server in Live CD

[Derek Broughton]

Bob Nielsen wrote:

> 
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> oops.  You may well be right.  I shouldn't have generalized.  Apache2
>> _definitely_ used to recreate symlinks.  I wanted to move it to
>> starting
>> after kdm - since I only use a web server on my laptop for my own
>> development, I don't need to wait for the server to start before
>> logging
>> in.  However, next time apache2 was upgraded it simply made a second
>> symlink to the init script, and caused errors in the boot sequence.  I
>> shouldn't have assumed, though, that that's the way _all_ init
>> scripts get
>> installed.
>>
>> Now that I know it doesn't _have_ to be that way, I should check
>> whether it
>> still happens with apache, and if it does I'll file a bug.  Thanks
> 
> Actually it is update-rc.d (which is run by the postinstall scripts)

I was aware of that.  So, in this case the either apache2 install was not
using update-rc.d or update-rc.d was broken.  Anyway, it was a long time
ago, and I need to check the situation again to see if a bug should be
filed.

> that handles the symlinks.  From its man page:
> 
>      If  any  files  /etc/rcrunlevel.d/[SK]??name already exist then
> update-rc.d does nothing.  This is so that the system administrator
> can  rearrange  the links, provided that they leave at least one link
> remaining, without having their configuration overwritten.

This, however, somewhat contradicts your earlier statement.  I'm a good boy,
I don't just delete symlinks in /etc/rc*.d/.  I would have used
"update-rc.d -f ntpdate remove".  Oops.  Next update it would be back... 
You have to just remove it in the default runlevel, which is rather
unintuitive.  
-- 
derek