[NBLUG/talk] ntpdate

[Christopher Wagner]

I think she left an important detail out. She is on only infrequently
connected to the internet. If she is able to connect to the internet she
does not have a problem. It seems ntpdate is not failing gracefully when
it can't connect to the internet, oddly enough. I have experienced this
in Ubuntu myself, but have mostly ignored it as I generally have
internet access.

- Chris

E Frank Ball wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:56:48PM -0700, 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. 
>
>Or you can configure ntpdate to work properly.
>
>The server is listed in /etc/default/ntpdate
>
>you can try ntp.nblug.org and see if it works better.
>
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