*puppetlabs-ntp* doesn't support FreeBSD.
I do use this module to manage ntp on Ubuntu.

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 4:44:21 PM UTC-4 LinuxDan wrote:

> Silly question:  Why not use 
> https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/ntp  ?
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> On Mar 28, 2023, at 10:30 AM, Laci D <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I tried both epp and erb templates.
>
> This is the manifest file:
>
> class site::profiles::ntp {
>     $ntp = hiera_hash('ntp')
>
>     case $::operatingsystem {
>             'freebsd': {
>                file { "/etc/ntp.conf":
>                    ensure  => file,
>                    recurse => true,
>                    purge   => true,
>                    force   => true,
>                    owner   => "root",
>                    group   => 0,
>                    mode    => "0644",
>                    content => template('site/ntp/ntp.conf.epp'),
>                    #content => template('site/ntp/ntp.conf.erb'),
>                }
>                service { 'ntpd':
>                    ensure => 'running',
>                    enable => true,
>                }
>                service { 'ntpdate':
>                    enable => true,
>                }
>             }
>         default: {
>
>          class { 'ntp':
>                servers => $ntp['servers'],
>          }
>
>        }
>    }
> }
>
>
> The template:
>
> templates/ntp/ntp.conf.epp
> <% @ntp[’servers’].each { |server| -%>
> server: <%= server %>
> <% } -%>
>
> And this is the hiera (as of now there is only one ntp server but there'll 
> be more in the future):
> ntp:
>   servers:
>     - 169.254.169.123
>
> Martin with the latest change I'm getting:
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: 
> Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource 
> Statement, Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Failed 
> to parse template site/ntp/ntp.conf.epp:
>   Filepath: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/templates/ntp/ntp.conf.epp
>   Line: 3
>   Detail: undefined local variable or method `’servers’' for 
> #<Puppet::Parser::TemplateWrapper:0x34a1bb52>
>  (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/manifests/profiles/ntp.pp, line: 
> 14, column: 31) 
> Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 10:08:43 AM UTC-4 Martin Alfke wrote:
>
>> My example is an epp template.
>>
>> What name does the variable have? $ntp? And: is this a hash with servers 
>> key set to an array?
>>
>> In this case your erb (!) template can look like the following:
>>
>> <% @ntp[’servers’].each { |server| -%>
>> server: <%= server %>
>> <% } -%>
>>
>> On 28. Mar 2023, at 14:37, Laci D <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Martin!
>>
>> I used your example and I think something is missing.
>> Since "servers" is under "ntp" in the hiera file (see example in my 
>> original email) maybe we need to define that in the erb file?
>>
>>
>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on 
>> SERVER: Internal Server Error: org.jruby.exceptions.SyntaxError: 
>> (SyntaxError) 
>> /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/templates/ntp/ntp.conf.erb:6: syntax 
>> error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG
>> _erbout.<< "server: ".freeze; _erbout.<<((...
>>            ^
>> Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 2:57:23 AM UTC-4 Martin Alfke wrote:
>>
>>> You must iterate as servers is an array:
>>>
>>> <% $servers.each |$server| { -%>
>>> server: <%= $server %>
>>> <%- } -%>
>>>
>>> On 27. Mar 2023, at 22:21, Laci D <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm working on defining NTP servers from Hiera.
>>>
>>> For Linux servers I have been using *puppetlabs-ntp*, which has been 
>>> working nicely. Now I need to add support for FreeBSD. Above module doesn't 
>>> support FreeBSD but I can edit ntp.conf with *file* resource type. 
>>>
>>> This is where things got complicated, *file* adds extra ["..."] around 
>>> the value form hiera, since it's an array. Array type is required for 
>>> *puppetlabs-ntp*
>>> Question is how can I get rid of the extra squarely braces and double 
>>> quotes?
>>> Rather than using a static file I'd like to stick to hiera since the ntp 
>>> can very based on datacenter.
>>>
>>> /etc/ntp.conf
>>> server ["169.254.169.123"]
>>>
>>> *Desired /etc/ntp.conf*
>>> server 169.254.169.123
>>>
>>> hieradata/site.yaml
>>> ntp:
>>>   servers:
>>>     - 169.254.169.123
>>>
>>> templates/ntp/ntp.conf.erb
>>> server <%= @ntp['servers'] %>
>>>
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