[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#448462: ntpdate is not called at boot time

[Christoph Pleger]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
Severity: important

Hello,

ntpdate is not called at boot time because of the following reason:

When the network device is found by udev, udev calls ifup which executes the
script /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate. This script checks for the presence of
/usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian and exits if that file is not present. As udev is
called before the local file systems are mounted, /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
is of course not there if /usr is on a separate partition.

So, /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian should wait for /usr/sbin before checking for
/usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian.

Regards
  Christoph 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                1:1.10-14         support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5           5.2-2             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8c-4etch1     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                4.29              Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                   5.8.8-7           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

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