From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 18:14:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plato.mentis.org (cc929562-a.hwrd1.md.home.com [24.6.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2DB15548 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steven@mentis.org) Received: from mentis.org (dyn3.ellicott.mentis.org [192.168.0.203]) by plato.mentis.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA68339; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:12:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from steven@mentis.org) Message-ID: <379FAA95.F3819080@mentis.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:12:53 -0400 From: Steven Esbrandt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Friedrich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sysadmin question about network startup References: <199907281551.LAA18365@laker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could always stick ntpdate in cron. -Steven Steve Friedrich wrote: > I have an old 486/66 running FreeBSD 2.2.8 acting as an Internet > gateway for my home LAN. It provides dial-on-demand PPP access to my > ISP. Recently, I've modified it to get the current time from my ISP > via ntpdate (during initial boot) and I provide time services to local > workstations via xntpd. > > The problem is that the PPP connection doesn't get started until > rc.local, which is long after rc.network, therefore ntpdate can't > access my ISP. > > In which rc file should I start my PPP? I'm using user-land PPP. > > Please note that I'm looking for an answer from someone able to answer > according to "official" system admin practice. I can engineer a hack > myself 8o) > > Steve Friedrich > > Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions > and > a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message