On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 	src/etc/rc.d: ntpdate
> Explicitly REQUIRE mountcritremote, since this uses awk.

I prefer time synchronisation to happen as early as possible.
The appended patch removes the dependency on awk.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

Index: src/etc/rc.d/ntpdate
===================================================================
--- ntpdate	11 Oct 2004 15:00:51 -0000	1.17
+++ ntpdate	15 Mar 2005 14:34:38 -0000
@@ -17,14 +17,21 @@
 ntpdate_start()
 {
 	if [ -z "$ntpdate_hosts" ]; then
-		ntpdate_hosts=$(awk '
-			/^#/				{ next }
-			/^(server|peer)[ \t]*127.127/	{ next }
-			/^(server|peer)/		{ if ($2 ~ /^-[46]/)
-							    print $3
-							  else
-							    print $2 }
-		' </etc/ntp.conf)
+		ntpdate_hosts="$(
+		    while read line ; do
+			set -- $line
+			case "$1" in
+			''|\#*)	;;
+			server|peer)
+			    case "$2:$3" in
+			    127.127*|*:127.127*) ;;
+			    -[46]:*)	echo "$3" ;;
+			    *)		echo "$2" ;;
+			    esac
+			    ;;
+			esac
+		    done </etc/ntp.conf
+		    )"
 	fi
 	if [ -n "$ntpdate_hosts"  ]; then
 		echo "Setting date via ntp."