ntpd sync fails on boot

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 02:14 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> This may be because my FC7 is old.  As suggested in
> other posts, it may be time to upgrade.  Still, it
> would be interesting to figure out what the problems
> is (if it could be done with only moderate effort). 
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I suspect so...

You could try to push ntpd startup back

Edit /etc/init.d/ntpd

# ntpd      This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
#           ntpd (NTPv4 daemon).
#
# chkconfig: 35 58 74

change the 58 to maybe 80 or 90 or ...

i.e.
chkconfig ntpd off
edit /etc/init.d/ntpd
chkconfig ntpd on

reboot

or you could just fiddle with the symbolic links in your runlevel...

i.e.
mv /etc/rc5.d/S58ntpd /etc/rc5.d/S91ntpd

of course this is just speculation and I have no basis to believe that
this will actually work.

or you could just try adding this to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

/etc/init.d/ntpd restart &

Craig