[OpenAFS] Problems in stopping the afs-client

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Andrei Maslennikov wrote:

>   but then two services (afs and, say, ntpd) should necessarily
>   be maintained together instead of one (afs) on every host involved.
>   If one starts to use ntpd on client and runs afsd with "-nosettime"
>   (option normally used only on servers), then it is essential
>   to make sure that servers run ntpd as well - which is not always
>   the case. I.e.: switch this option in afsd, and you are suddenly
>   before a lot more issues to manage...

We could integrate an ntp client, but that's been tried before.

Something smarter though not cleaner would be to determine if ntp was
running.