ntpdate start up sequence

[Johan Brannlund]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:43:53 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:

> I'm setting up a DNS server that will use itself for name resolution, 
> versus using another server. This created a problem with ntpdate.
> 
> ntpdate starts from /etc/rcS.d, which loads before bind9 or any other 
> non-system services. Because of this, ntpdate is unable to locate the 
> time server that it's looking for (since DNS isn't started when it loads).

The simplest solution might be to move ntpdate to start later than
bind. To do this in a persistent manner:

1. Rename the symlink from rcS.d/S20ntpdate (or whatever it's called) to
rcS.d/K20ntpdate. This will prevent newer versions of the package from
messing with your changes. 

2. Create a symlink from (say) rc2.d/S80ntpdate to ../init.d/ntpdate .

Regards,

Johan