From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GhC50-0004NT-BX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:32:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA6LTQaI031217; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:29:26 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA6LQsKq002293 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:26:54 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E1830037 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:26:53 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:26:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <454E098D.2040807@neo.rr.com> <87mz74v247.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87mz74v247.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2397988.vU7PYCdryK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611062226.52486.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 56cb6328-5d14-43fc-adbe-56f247bb5851 X-Archives-Hash: 340af979164a0d5caa868fc7893e5b1a --nextPart2397988.vU7PYCdryK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 06 November 2006 19:52, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > John Blinka 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 } =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart2397988.vU7PYCdryK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFT6ic8/kKEzmwNNoRAoQQAJwNfbdBg0wsN6w2LKhxljELXTPojACfSaXN lz8DOhrkbhZa0t12BeDllLw= =kUwj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2397988.vU7PYCdryK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list