[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#461473: /etc/init.d/ntp restart should fail if ntp daemon is not running

[Rick Thomas]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-2
Severity: normal


In /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ntp it is
implicitly assumed that "restart" will fail if
the daemon is not already running -- unfortunately,
that's not true.

When dhclient brings up a new interface, it does 
a restart of ntpd, which is fine if the daemon is
running already.  But if it's not already running
(one case would be if the sysadmin has intentionally
shut it down for maintenance.  Another case is
during system initialization: The "network" script
is run before all the resources for the "ntp" script
are available.  See bug report #461461) this will
bring up the ntpd daemon prematurely.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.7-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-3   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.30       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl                          5.8.8-12   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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