how to stop synchroniziing the clock from internet at startup

[Derek Broughton]

Thilo Six wrote:

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> Derek Broughton schrieb am 04.03.2006 18:56:

(rather an old post?)
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>> Yeah, right.  9 times out of 10, I get no synchronization at startup,
>> because it gets no response from ntp.ubuntulinux.org OR
>> north-america.pool.ntp.org.
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> That is strange. Here ntpdate syncs every startup with
> ntp.ubuntulinux.org.
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> Since i am on DSL (pppoe) i had to rearrange some init-scripts in
> /etc/rc2.d/ to make shure ntpdate sync only after the internet
> connection is established.

I would have assumed it was my connection - I have a wireless connection to
a modem quite a distance away, and ntpdate runs when I get connected to my
_lan_ but that often hasn't actually got a connection to the internet, yet,
but the same problem happens at work.

I could probably fix it with a longer timeout.
-- 
derek