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Bug 71208

Summary: Start RP-PPPoE before NTP
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Lionel Sausin <lionel>
Component: New packagesAssignee: SpanKY <vapier>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Lionel Sausin 2004-11-14 14:27:46 UTC
On a system having both ntp-client and rp-pppoe started in the same runlevel, it is probable that the administrator wants NTP to reach a host over the PPPoE connection.
This fails with the current stable ebuilds because init wants to start ntp before rp-pppoe.
A simple change in the dependencies in /etc/init.d/ntp does the trick.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. add ntp-client and rp-pppoe to myrunlevel
2. configure rp-pppoe ; leave ntp-client's config as-is
3. rc myrunlevel

Actual Results:  
NTP complains it can't reach pool.ntp.org, because the PPPoE connection has not
yet been established

Expected Results:  
Establish PPPoE connection and then sync clocks

Using up-to date portage tree, stable ebuilds, x86, gentoo-sources kernel.

A quick fix is to change the dependencies in /etc/init.d/ntp-client :
  depend() {
          before cron
          need net
          use dns logger
>>        after rp-pppoe
  }

A "before" dependency in /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe should do the trick just as well.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-11-18 21:57:30 UTC
rp-pppoe is not a supported net script