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ntp package

  1. Bug #585053
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 585053

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Dimitri Bakalow (dimitri-bakalow) wrote : Re: ntpdate running in the background by default

As I said before, this appeares in syslog, when the network connection is established - I discovered it initially, when I was trying to "debug" the problems with the wireless connection on laptop.

The problem is not that the ntpdate runs all time in the background, but the script /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate does run every time when the network connection is established, as I explained before already.

There is one thing though - if ntp support is installed, then the selected servers are configurable from the time-admin, but the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is still invoked every time even when time settings is set to "Manual" from time-admin, although it respects the server selection made in time-admin (obviously from /etc/ntp.conf) and server selection from /etc/default/ntpdate is ignored.

All-in-all:

1. There is no way to prevent ntpdate to run every time, when network connection is established - setting to "Manual" in time-admin has no affect on this.
2. Servers can be selected after the installation of ntp support and this selection is then respected by the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate script.

P.S. There is no "Synchronise now" button in time settings panel any more.