ntpd -q retry timeout

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 25 August 2010 23:05, Rob Landley wrote:
> A note on the advisability of using ntpd's -q option from /dev/console, a 
> context in which ctrl-c doesn't work:
> 
> # ntpd -nq -p north-america.pool.ntp.org
> ntpd: send failed: Network is unreachable
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> 
> This was the point at which I came back and rebooted the machine.

This is how upstream ntpd works too.
But OTOH, upstream is not fully sane...

Please try attached patch. +16 bytes.
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vda
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