[NBLUG/talk]

[Pablo Romero]

The same thing happened to me when I had my wireless
card configured incorrectly. After I got that figure
out NTP did not hang on startup, which makes me wonder
if your network card may not be set up optimaly too.  

--- Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:

> Engel wrote:
> 
> >Hi guys, 
> >I'm running Kubuntu on my PIII/1gig Compaq that
> Chris
> >Wagner helped me install at the last 'fest.
> >
> >Now that it's been awhile, I'm noticing that at
> >startup, there's a line that fails every time that
> >says the computer is trying to go online and check
> for
> >a time update from the ubuntu website during its
> >loading. This means the loading sometimes hangs and
> I
> >have to restart - or after it loads incorrectly I
> >can't go online on the network and I have to
> restart. 
> >
> >I'm told because NTP is hanging on boot, I need to
> >remove the ntpdate command from start-up. 
> >
> >Duh, remembering that I have little knowledge of
> names
> >of progs and lingo and will be searching around to
> >make sense of whatever you tell me anyway... How do
> I
> >remove that line of ntpdate from the start-up
> >sequence? 
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Franis
> >
> If you were running a RedHat/Fedora variant, I'd say
> chkconfig would 
> help, but I don't think it's available in Ubuntu
> (nor other Debian 
> flavors, IIRC).  A quick google on how to turn on
> and off services (ntpd 
> is a 'service' or 'daemon') at boot time tells me
> that 'update-rc.d' is 
> the command for you.  Run 'man update-rc.d' to read
> up on how it works.
> 
> Here's a helpful page I found near the top of a
> google search for the 
> command 'update-rc.d ntp remove' :
> http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/setup.htm
> 
> The relevant part is:
> 
>         The directories /etc/rc1.d/ through
> /etc/rc5.d/ contain symbolic
>         links to the initialization scripts in
> /etc/init.d/. These
>         symbolic links ensure that these scripts are
> be called with
>         start and stop arguments at boot-time and
> shutdown-time
>         (respectively). If you ever want to stop
> calling a particular
>         initialization script at these times, you
> can do so using
>         update-rc.d. For example, to turn off ntp
> synchronization, just
>         [run the following command]
> 
>         # update-rc.d ntp remove
> 
> That command should remove ntpd from your start up
> sequence.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -dave
> 
> 
> 
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