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

[Cyril Brulebois]

(woops, those don't work too nice when sent to nnnnnn@; apologies for
the duplicate.)
> Control: unarchive -1
> Control: severity -1 important

Tim Connors <reportbug at rather.puzzling.org> (2010-10-19):
> Because dhcp was once installed on this machine,
> /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp exists.
> 
> Ntp uses this regardless, completely ignoring /etc/ntp.conf.
> 
> Is this in any way sane?
> 
> Who generated /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp?  Why wasn't it removed when
> dhcp did not bind the interface?  Why would it completely ignore any
> settings in /etc/ntp.conf when using dhcp?  Shouldn't it just override
> or add to the servers instead of rewriting the entire configuration?

So we're still seeing people getting bitten by this on wheezy and jessie
systems. Wouldn't it make sense to provide a fix for jessie at last?


KiBi.
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