Re: ntpdate(8) and unbound(8) dependencies during boot

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:16:40 +0100
Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:32:49 +0200
> Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 09:04:08AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > > Anyway, has anyone come across this issue before and how did you
> > > manage to solve it?
> > 
> > You can specify an ip address (or several) as args to ntpdate.
> > Try:
> > 
> > 	ntpdate=YES ntpdate_args=${IP-of-your-ntpd-sever}
> > 
> > or something along that line.
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> OK thanks, I'll try that. This is probably better than changing
> ntp.conf file.

OK, turns out this is the correct way to pass NTP hosts to ntpdate:
 
ntpdate=YES
ntpdate_flags="-v"
ntpdate_hosts="95.215.175.2 62.3.77.2 178.18.123.148"