long time in setup?

[Michael Tautschnig]

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> 
> Hmmm, don't think that would cause it (both boxen are in the same subnet)
> so they should behave similarly wrt/ time sync.
> And IIRC ntpdate has a shorter timeout, not 3 minutes
>

If you can't physically access the host, the easiest way would probably be a
hook for task_setup, setup.${HOSTNAME} , that does essentially the same as the
original code, but adds a timestamp after each line.

HTH,
Michael