On Monday 06 November 2006 19:52, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> John Blinka <jblinka@neo.rr.com> writes:
> > I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on.
> > Every time I boot it,
> > it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be
> > started".
>
> One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from
> /etc/conf.d/local-start
>
> local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing
> is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it.
>
> Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /etc/conf.d/local-start
> and see if it works.

Actually I have this in /etc/conf.d/net:

postup() {
    [...]

    /etc/init.d/ntp-client start >> /var/log/net.log
    return 0
}

postdown() {
    [...]

    /etc/init.d/ntp-client stop >> /var/log/net.log
    return 0
}

-- 
Bo Andresen