ntpd failed to start

[Ed Greshko]

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:12, ifernandes wrote:
> Hi everybody, 
>  
> I am facing a strange behavior with ntpd and need help!!!...
> I have defined on my /etc/ntp/step-tickers my internal ntp server.
> When I start the ntpd daemon, the message "Synchronizing with time
> server" appears before the ntpd message and boths are started
> successfully.
>  
> However when I reboot the server the ntp fail to start just on the
> first message "Synchronizing with time server   [FAILED]", and then
> the ntpd is not started. 
> After the boot process  I log on as root and do a "service ntpd start"
> and everything start to work...
> The ntpd was added with the chkconfig command and is started after the
> network...
>  
> Any clue of what could be hapenning ?

What kind of internet connection do you have?  Could it be that the
network is not truly up at the time that ntp is being started in the
boot process?