new user - xntp

[NoOp]

On 06/09/2010 03:58 AM, Tim Hanson wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 08, 2010 09:05:55 pm NoOp wrote:
...
>> 
>> Ubuntu info:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime
> Just out of curiosity, in the past with another distribution xntpd installed 
> into the boot process.  This was fine on a hard wired desktop computer, but 
> fell down on laptops that aren't connected to the internet on boot.  The 
> laptop would hang for eons waiting for the daemon to time out trying to 
> connect to a time server.  How is this handled in Ubuntu?  
> 

Ubuntu had this issue with ntp several releases back, but I've not run
into this for quite some time. Can't recall the exact fix, but I suppose
it's somewhere in these:

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&field.has_no_branches=on>