avoid syncronising clock and how to dial-up

[Ed Fletcher]

Neil Woolford wrote:
> At 11:44 04/12/04, altern wrote:
> 
>> couple of stupid questions I guess.
> 
> 
> Not in the least!
> 
>> I just setup my network connection yesterday and my problem now is 
>> that every time Ubuntu loads up it tries to syncronise the computer 
>> clock to the one on ubuntu server. Because i have dialup connectionn 
>> at home its cannot syncronise at all as its not connected by default. 
>> So it takes several seconds until this is timed out. How could i 
>> disable this?
> 
> 
> I've been meaning to do this for a while myself, so you've nudged me 
> into it :)
> 
> 
> The script that calls for the update is /etc/init.d/ntpdate.  This is 
> called as part of the later stages of the general boot process by a link 
> from /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate.
> 
> The are differing views about how to disable such a process...
> 
> My opinion on it is to rename the link from /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate to 
> /etc/rcS.d/_S51ntpdate.  This simple renaming stops the script running 
> automatically, as the system is looking for names that begin with S (for 
> start) or K (for kill).  The link is easy to rename back if you want to 
> start the service again.
> 
> (I don't know your level of experience of Linux, so I'll just point out 
> you'll need to be in a root terminal to do this renaming;  it is not 
> allowed as a normal user.  Email me for more info if this is problematic.)

This is an interesting thread.  I also have Ubuntu on a laptop and the 
ntp-update was not set.  I've added it because I'm usually either on a 
wired or a wireless connection.  However, is there a way for me to turn 
it off by default and run it from the gui after the laptop has booted? 
Or perhaps have it detect a network and run only if a connection is 
available?

Thanks,
Ed
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