Ubuntu
ntp package

  1. Bug #1472056
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1472056

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :

The stale file was apparently left by /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp. Since this dhclient script updates the ntp.conf.dhcp file when a new NTP server is advertised via DHCP, it should be OK to always use the most recent file between /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp and /etc/ntp.conf.

The attached patch changes the initscript to use /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp only if it is newer than /etc/ntp.conf.