[pkg-ntp-maintainers] ntpdate invocation

[Peter Eisentraut]

Looking down the bug list of ntpdate, nobody is happy about when it is 
invoked.  Clearly, with dial-up and dynamic interfaces, running it at 
boot time is just a shot in the dark.  So, I'm proposing that we change 
this around, eliminate the init script and run it only from ifup.d.

I've attached a patch in that direction.  Note that the choice about 
when to use the -b option is pretty arbitrary.  You want to use it when 
booting but probably not when bringing up dynamic interfaces like PPP 
or Wi-Fi.  We can't reall detect that, so I made something up that 
might be close enough.

Comments?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ntpdate.patch
Type: text/x-diff
Size: 3227 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ntp-maintainers/attachments/20060831/1f8eeafc/ntpdate.bin