Nigel, what would you want to ping? I think you could put a line in that
script to do that.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: How to run script (sleep360) without delaying bootup
Ntpd on my FC2 install has a problem when no dialup connection is
available at
bootup, but does handle this well on FC6.
I have a script in the ntp tarball named ntp-restart which appears to do
what
I want, but if I make an entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run it, and as it
has
a "sleep 360" in the script, it justs hangs the bootup for 6 mins until
the
script has run to completion. Script below.
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script can be used to kill and restart the NTP daemon. Edit the
# /usr/local/bin/ntpd line to fit.
#
kill -INT `ps -ax | egrep "ntpd" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed
's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/`
sleep 360 #changed from 10
/usr/local/bin/ntpd -g
/usr/local/bin/ntp-wait
exit 0
What I need is a way to run this script, either at, or after bootup, but
automatically. This would give me enough time after bootup, and logging
in,
to make the Internet connection. Bear in mind that it needs to run as
root,
otherwise I could put something in KDE's autostart directory to run it.
Ideally of course would be a script to ping an IP address out there in the
big
wide world, and when it gets a positive response, would run the
ntp-restart
script, which then could be reset to "sleep 10", as a 6 min delay would
not
be necessary.
Any ideas folks? All suggestions, as usual, very gratefully received.
Nigel.
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