Ntpdate fails to start
Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Tue Sep 9 19:22:38 UTC 2008
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:48, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote:
> > Well if the network service works for you then you don't need the
> > NetworkManager service. The network service starts earlier in the boot
> > sequence so it is already up when the ntpdate service starts.
>
> I think the problem was caused by the fact that I installed Fedora
> from a Live CD; it activates NetworkManager, perhaps because the Live
> CD is expecting a laptop as target computer.
>
> Paul
Probably not, as I downloaded the 6 CD's for Fedora 9, and Network Mangler
(aka Network Manager) was still activated as default. I've seen loads of
problems reported using Network Manager, so disabled it, and activated the
network service instead.
Nice to see that the problem is resolved.
Nigel.
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