Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 159053
Low availability of ntp deamon for relaying.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: If the ntpd is used as NTP relay, and the (external) network is down, the deamon is not started. The /etc/rc.d/init.d script calls exit for this case. Also the daemon may be started without ntp.conf in some cases, so the exit for this case is also very crude. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup your system as ntp relay. 2. Restart your ntpd service without network. Actual Results: There is no running ntp deamon afterwards! Expected Results: The ntpd should allways be running, regardless of network status. Additional info: For an ntp relay it is common to use the undisciplined local clock driver as fall-back. You want to be able to bing up the daemon, even when your ISP is down, you allways need a single source of time. Other init scripts may also suffer from assuming network availability to be required for a service to run. The ordering in which you want to bring things up should not create silly dependencies.
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In the /etc/sysconfig/network file that the ntpd initscript checks isn't the current network status, but a setting if networking should be enabled or disabled. It is correct to exit when NETWORKING=no.