[clug] forcing ntpdate timeout with no network

[Ben Nizette]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 15:53 +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> 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?

Ooh, that'd be nice, I'll look in to it.  It isn't a complete solution
as the board theoretically may or may not be using DHCP, but in practise
I've never heard of them assigning statically.

	--Ben.

> 
> Alex
>