ntp daemon not reconfigured by /etc/network
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ntp (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ntp
If you have a laptop that roams, you want your ntp daemon to restart when you change networks so that your time remains synchronized. This would normally be done by scripts in /etc/network/
/etc/network/
Look at the files. Observe the lines saying:
# remove (or comment out) the next line if your network addresses change
exit 0
Those lines effectively disable the files. They need to be removed. Then they will properly restart ntpd when a machine roams. I'm not quite clear on why the comments are there to begin with, as a machine with a static address will never invoke the scripts.
This will take mere moments for someone to fix.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? The files you mentioned are not present in my testing with Intrepid. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release, Hardy Heron? Thanks in advance.