ntpd startup too early + hangs

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:59:12AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Problem is that ntpd is too dumb to know when you have a network connecction and 
> when you don't.  NetworkManager can't be started earlier because dbus & hal 
> aren't started early, because they are installed in /usr and that's not 
> guaranteed to be mounted until somewhere in the middle of the boot process.  
> ntpd needs to be smarter about when it does & does not look for servers based on 
> whether or not there's a connection.

How about switching to OpenNTPD?

http://www.openntpd.org/