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How to slove slowly stuff about network daemon

Outline

1. 1. Why this page?
   2. Warning
   3. The way to solve
   4. Implementation code
   5. Adding to rc.conf

Why this page?

On ArchLinux, sometimes network daemon and synchronizing time via the internet got slow (However the time is synchronized properly.).It made me annoyed, and I decided to solve it.

Warning

This document is for ArchLinux only, If your Linux is not ArchLinux and use this way, you may get troubles.

The way to solve

• Writing daemon to run network, ntpdate, and ntpd in order, then run the daemon asynchronously.

Implementation code

 #!/bin/bash
 . /etc/rc.conf
 . /etc/rc.d/functions
 case "$1" in
  start)
   stat_busy "Setting up network stuff"
   stat_done;
    /etc/rc.d/network start
    /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
    /etc/rc.d/ntpd start
  ;;
  stop)
   stat_busy "Shutting down network stuff"
   stat_done;
   /etc/rc.d/network stop
   /etc/rc.d/ntpdate stop
   /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop
  ;;
  restart)
   $0 stop
   sleep 1
   $0 start
  ;;
  *)
  echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
 esac

This file is called "networktime" in this document.

Adding to rc.conf

Delete daemon: network ntpdate, and ntpd
Add daemon: networktime