Re: CVS commit: src/etc/rc.d

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Module Name:    src
> Committed By:   perry
> Date:           Mon Aug  3 17:45:48 UTC 2009
>
> Modified Files:
>         src/etc/rc.d: named ntpdate
>
> Log Message:
> ntpdate can't work without named because a modern ntp.conf has dns
> names in it. We therefore now depend on it.
>
> However, this would have then created a circular dependency because  
> named
> depended on "SERVERS", and racoon was before SERVERS and required kdc,
> and kdc needs the time to be right and thus depended on ntp.
>
> Instead, have named depend on NETWORKING (so that there is a network
> there), mountcritremote (so we know that named has a directory to work
> from) and syslogd (so that named has some place to spew information).
>
> I'm not sure this is perfect, but it is certainly a big improvement
> over constantly failing ntpdate runs during boot.

Definitely not perfect .. named might also depend on ntp (by way of  
kdc) if GSS-TSIG is enabled.

Explicit dependencies are the pits.  Launch on demand is the way to go.

-- thorpej