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Auteur: Nate Bargmann
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)
* On 2016 14 Aug 13:36 -0500, richard lucassen wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 04:18:09 -0700
> Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
> > OK, thanks for the comprehensive comparison. Oddly enough, I don't
> > have my regular Linux workstation around at the moment, and cannot
> > recall how I usually resolve this; probably mostly by almost never
> > booting. (Why shutdown when you can suspend?)
>
> When you install a new machine? Or whenever you boot and there is a
> network problem, you will have to wait until ntp times out before you
> can do anything. Normally it doesn't bother, but when you're mucking
> about with machines you can run into this problem.


Interesting.

I've done plenty of installs or boots without a network and don't recall
ntp blocking the system startup, at least on Debian and derivatives. I
run it on all my computers.

- Nate

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