On Wednesday 26 October 2005 7:15 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 11:17 AM -0400 10/26/05, Claude Jones wrote: > >Come to think, I had the same problem, yesterday. It got to the ntp time > >check > >and stalled. My ISP was down momentarily. My machine hung for many > > minutes. A little while later, I tried booting again and ntp succeeded > > and the machine booted. I'm on 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 > > Yes, I too wish that NTP started up in the background they way, say, > Netatalk can. I'm not quite ready to roll my own solution. I'm not sure when it changed, but, I clearly remember that when ntp would occasionally fail, there would be a message that would say that it had, and then the machine would continue to boot. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA