Latest rawhide vs Bootchart

[n0dalus]

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.

n0dalus.