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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: nulled output of rc.network
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001030144701.00aa0890@vivaldi> from Sergei Vyshenski at "Oct 30, 2000 02:56:22 pm"
To: svysh@pn.sinp.msu.ru (Sergei Vyshenski)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:41:13 -0800 (PST)
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> /etc/rc.network script has a line:
> 
>   ${ntpdate_program:-ntpdate} ${ntpdate_flags} >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> With output here being sent to null, how can I notice that my favorite
> ntp server  went down, has changed its service policy, its IP etc?
> Maybe just
> 
>   ${ntpdate_program:-ntpdate} ${ntpdate_flags}
> 
> could be a better option?

I actually apply this one to all of our systems:
        case ${ntpdate_enable} in
        [Yy][Ee][Ss])
                echo -n ' ntpdate'
-               ${ntpdate_program:-ntpdate} ${ntpdate_flags} >/dev/null 2>&1
+               sleep 20
+               ${ntpdate_program:-ntpdate} ${ntpdate_flags}
+               echo -n 'Doing more additional network setup:'
                ;;

(White space munged by X cut-n-paste, sleep 20 is a hack to allow the
routing daemons started just before this a chance to install some routes
so that ntpdate can actually contact the ntpdate server, the extra echo
is to make the console output look correct for later daemons started).


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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