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

[Bernd Ernesti <veego%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:45:48PM +0000, 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.

Huh?

That maybe true if you use some round robing ntp serers, but not if
you hard wire it to specific hosts.

> 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.

Where did you ask for review if you are not certain about this changes?

Bernd