more digging in required (thanks, Matt, your comments, and of those in #ubuntu-bugs helped a lot).
I am always amazed by the depth of my ignorance... /etc/network/if-(up|down|post-down|pre-up).d scripts are the responsibility of each package: NTP, NTPdate, and others. These scripts are executed whenever the action (reflected in the directory name) is executed. So, it is not a n-m issue here. I was wrong. Nor it is NTP (not sure), or upstart. Will have to figure out. Anyway: a summary, so far: 1. as provided, ubuntu has the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntp script disabled. As a result, connections purely managed from n-m do not get ntp service (so it seems). Why? 2. Although not hurting, ntp and ntpdate got installed; ntpdate cannot run if ntpd is running, so having both in *may* not be necessary. -- ntp starts before the network is up in feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/90267 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
