[clug] forcing ntpdate timeout with no network

[Alex Satrapa]

On 02/11/2009, at 15:35 , Ben Nizette wrote:

> Not a bad plan, but it appears the "up" scripts get called when ifup  
> is
> called, whether or not I've got a cable plugged in :-(

Are you getting an IP address using DHCP? If so, there may be a script  
that the DHCP client invokes that you can hijack to spawn a thread  
which runs ntpdate and then quietly dies?

Alex