Re: System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:49 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 20:03 +0100, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> > >> as long as those tool properly configure ntp... in the gnome date
> > >> applet i cant find any ntp options.
> > > 
> > > NTP doesn't need any configuration UI,  it just needs to be on by default.
> > Wrong.
> > 
> > Keywords: Firewall, dedicated local ntpd-servers.
> 
> Statistically speaking, 0% of the endpoints on the internet are ntpd
> servers.

We also need to fix ntpdate so that it waits for the network to be 
available before attempting to set the clock.  Using NetworkManager 
NETWORKWAIT=yes doesn't help here.