[Bug 999725] Re: broken start-up dependencies for ntp (starts before NIS is available)

[Paul Crawford]

It is probably true that this has not been seen much as a bug due to DNS
normally being available, hence NIS dependency (if present) being a
secondary issue. However, we found that ntp did not recover by itself,
so possibly it only tries to find the nameservers once, but will re-try
for the time servers in ntp.conf

I don't think it is necessary to test for any direct dependency on NIS
in ntp.conf (that could be tricky) but a more robust approach would be
to start (or restart?) ntp if a directory service is started/restarted
just to make sure any such dependency or time-server changes are
resolved. I presume this is the sort of thing Upstart can do.

Incidentally it seems the last post for bug #604717 is spam, is there
any way to get it deleted?

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