network services at boot (was Re: Boot charting)

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:02 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:27 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > On So, 2005-11-13 at 16:10 +0000, Matthew East wrote:

> To be honest I am actually quite pleased with boot times (45 seconds is
> fine for me, and since suspend to ram works too...), the only thing that
> really constitutes a problem is the fact that the network ifup service
> stops for ages while I am not within range of my home network (for
> example if I move to the office) and this then leads to the ntpdate
> service losing lots of time too. I use profiles in network-admin, but of
> course this doesn't help on boot.
> 
> On Windows, one of the reasons it is quicker at booting is (I think)
> that it doesn't hang around waiting for the network services to start
> up. Then again, it takes a hell of a lot longer to log in on Windows
> than to log into Gnome. :)

Idea: would it be possible to remove the ntpdate service from startup
altogether? I've noticed that update-manager manages to reload my apt
sources in the background after I've entered my password for other
administrative services, perhaps it could be taught to update the clock
from the internet via ntpdate too? Users should be able to disable that
from the Time & Date administrative tool.

This to me would make more sense than running it at boot when loads of
people don't have the internet up. In many cases, the ntpdate services
doesn't fail quickly: it can keep searching for ages!

Probably this idea has occurred to you guys before and you've rejected
it for some reason, if so, please ignore me. But I think on the face of
things it would be a sensible solution.

Matt
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