[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#600661: Bug#600661: ntp: Uses /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp regardless!?

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:15:48PM +0300, Tero Marttila wrote:
> 
> It would seem that in some scenarios reconfiguring
> /etc/network/interfaces from dhcp to static after install leaves a
> stale /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp around?

It shouldn't, I do this all the time, never ran into this problem.

It's probably because you do something so that the dhcp client
doesn't have any chance to tell ntp to stop using that file.

> Purging /ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp
> on boot would be a start, but in this case, the server has not been
> rebooted once since it was installed...

It should actually purge that file on reboot.


Kurt