[24088] in Athena Bugs
Re: DISCONNECTABLE=true machines don't run ntp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sun Sep 14 01:21:24 2003
Message-Id: <200309140521.BAA20614@m37-spare-sun.mit.edu>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Sep 2003 01:11:54 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:21:22 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I'm not sure if this was done on purpose or is a side effect,
>> but machines set to DISCONNECTABLE=true don't run ntpd.
This code in athena-ntp.rc makes it look pretty intentional:
>> case "$1" in
>> start)
>> [ "$DISCONNECTABLE" = true ] && exit 0
[snip]
Greg checked in that change a year ago, although I don't see any
commentary on the change in source-reviewers. Maybe he'll comment on
its intent. Perhaps we should leave the above code in place but also
have system-time.sh start ntp on net-up events.
Garry
