Latest rawhide vs Bootchart

[Patrick]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:56 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 01:43 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> > >
> > > Looks like ntpdate was waiting on net connections to finish setting the clock.
> > > Either we should make it fork, or we should allow multiple initscripts
> > > to start at once (I thought the latter was being looked into?).
> >
> > It can't fork -- some later init scripts may require precise
> > synchronization (e.g. kerberos-related services). If you want to run
> > time sync, you'll have to wait for it to finish.
> >
> 
> Anything requiring precise sync shouldn't be relying on ntpdate to
> succeed, should it?
> Or perhaps any services that fall under this category might be able to
> wait for ntpdate to finish before starting? That way most other things
> can continue to start, even if one or two initscripts will wait.

Agree there. It's quite annoying to have ntpd hanging at boot when e.g.
my laptop is not hooked up to the Net. I would prefer that it fork into
the background and let me do my work while other services that depend on
ntpd nicely wait for ntpd to start up (or fail).

Regards,
Patrick