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[John]

Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:52:36PM +0200, Johan said
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On boot up the system reaches a line ..
>>synchronizing clock to pool.ntp.org
>>
>>This is probably fine if the gateway is on line.
>>But if off line this workstation gets stuck there for  <quite>  a while.
> 
> 
> When I boot offline, it fails very quickly; I think because I have no
> available DNS servers so it just quickly fails to resolve.  If you want
> to stop it from running at boot, run "rm /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate".

For dialup users, it makes sense to do it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d