On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:43:02PM -0500, Lee wrote: > How to tell systemd to leave the ntpd config alone?
What makes you think the two are connected in any way? Under bullseye, if the ntp package (which supplies the ntpd program) is installed, then systemd-timesyncd is removed. The two packages will not coexist. Under some older versions of Debian (I'm not sure when it changed exactly), they can coexist, but the systemd-timesyncd service is configured not to run if /usr/sbin/ntpd exists and is executable. Either way, if ntp(d) is installed, systemd will not do anything regarding time synchronization or NTP. > I tried changing /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf to request just > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, > interface-mtu, > rfc3442-classless-static-routes ; > > and systemd still restarted ntpd with only the dhcp supplied ntp > server address ... which is this machine, so all the configured ntp > servers went away :( This is too vague. What are you actually seeing? unicorn:~$ ps auxw | grep ntpd ntp 758 0.0 0.0 74696 3896 ? Ssl Feb04 0:14 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 107:112 greg 290127 0.0 0.0 6244 2404 pts/0 S+ 15:04 0:00 grep ntpd The ntpd program (service) isn't started with an NTP server address as an argument. The configuration is all in files. unicorn:~$ grep -e ^server -e ^pool /etc/ntp.conf pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst Are you claiming that systemd has somehow modified your /etc/ntp.conf file? What change did it make? What does your ntp.conf file look like now, after the change? > I then tried telling network manager to just get an ip address & > subnet mask from dhcp. And still systemd fucked up the ntpd config > > What finally worked was editing /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper to > remove ' NTPD_OPTS="$NTPD_OPTS -u $UGID" ' Huh? You're saying that removing the "-u $UGID" option made it "work"? And that it "didn't work" with -u being passed? Why would that be the case? Is there a file or directory on you system that has the wrong ownership? What errors were you getting in your logs?
