[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#542602: Bug#542602: ntp: Should ntp update clock before or after the syslog collector starts?

[Peter Eisentraut]

On tor, 2009-08-20 at 20:43 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Kurt Roeckx]
> > I don't see how it's not compliant?
> 
> ntp and rdate is listed specificly in the $time definition, and I
> believe the reasonable expectation of people writing scripts depending
> on $time to have ntp synchronization done before their script is
> started.  At least I understand the LSB comment to mean that if ntp or
> rdate is installed and available on the machine, they will be used for
> clock synchronization by $time.

One possible solution to this would be to have $time be provided by
another init script, say called ntp-done, that waits (via ntpq or
something) until ntp has finally set the time.