[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#600661: Bug#600661: the bug confirmed

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Václav Ovsík wrote:
> Hi,
> I have this problem too. This is a duplicate to bug #569775 assigned to
> network-manager now.
> 
> I found this problem on two virtual machines installed recently.
> The machines were installed using the PXE and the DHCP was left
> the network interface configuration method.
> 
> I did some changes in the /etc/ntp.conf and restarted ntpd. I was quite
> long confused, that I changed settings but without any effect.
> I noticed ntpd args in the ps output lately.
> This is a bit counterintuitive. In the case the modification
> time of /etc/ntp.conf is greater the modification time of
> /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp the later should be regenerated in the
> startup script.

This is all controlled by /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp,
so something called it telling it to use the ntp servers from
dhcp, and then didn't clean it up.

I don't see how this can be in a bug in the ntp package.


Kurt