Re: RCng/NTP Catch-22

From: Mike Makonnen <mtm_at_identd.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:05:13 +0300
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:03:29PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have run into a messy issue with ntp on a V5 or current system. I have
> kludged around it, but the problem really needs to be fixed.
> 
> ntpd uses symlinked devices to talk to the reference clock (if there is
> one).
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Jul  1 14:36 /dev/pps1 -> /dev/cuaa1
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Jul  1 14:36 /dev/true1 -> /dev/cuaa1
> 
> While I really wish ntpd did not do this, it does and it's in the base
> system. 
> 
> Since /etc/rc.d/ntpd contains:
> BEFORE: LOGIN
> and /etc/rc.d/devfs contains:
> REQUIRE: LOGIN
> I don't see a clean way to create the symlinks at boot time. If the
> devices are not present when ntp starts, it never looks again.

I don't see why devfs requires LOGIN. It only requires that rcconf and
the /usr filesystem be available. Also, since it appears that it
may be needed by some daemons it should be set to run before any servers
are started. I think the attached (untested) patch should work.

Cheers.
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