new user - xntp

[Tim Hanson]

On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 08:31:24 am NoOp wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 03:58 AM, Tim Hanson wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 08, 2010 09:05:55 pm NoOp wrote:
> ...
> 
> >> Ubuntu info:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, in the past with another distribution xntpd
> > installed into the boot process.  This was fine on a hard wired desktop
> > computer, but fell down on laptops that aren't connected to the internet
> > on boot.  The laptop would hang for eons waiting for the daemon to time
> > out trying to connect to a time server.  How is this handled in Ubuntu?
> 
> Ubuntu had this issue with ntp several releases back, but I've not run
> into this for quite some time. Can't recall the exact fix, but I suppose
> it's somewhere in these:
> 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orde
> rby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=I
> NCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&fie
> ld.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=
> INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED
> &assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervis
> or=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator
> =ANY&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_du
> pes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&
> field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&
> field.has_no_branches=on>

They probably did something like I did, which was to dive into the init.d 
script and check for a network before allowing the script to run.  I suppose 
running unconnected for long periods of time would cause some drift, but ntp 
has a drift file.  Close enough for a laptop.

Thx for the help.