[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#481049: Bug#481049: ntpdate-debian not handled consistently at if-up
Peter Eisentraut
peter_e at gmx.net
Sun Jun 1 14:38:02 UTC 2008
Drew Parsons wrote:
> /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate first checks for
> /lib/udev/hotplug.functions and performs a
> "wait_for_file /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian".
>
> Only after this does it check if /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian is in fact
> present.
> Therefore existence of ntpdate-debian should be tested before trying
> to wait for it!
This report is nonsensical, because all wait_for_file does is check if the
file exists a few times. Therefore, the change you propose is either a no-op
or would break things, depending on what you actually meant.
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