Ubuntu
ntp package

  1. Bug #90267
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 90267

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote : Re: ntp starts before the network is up in feisty

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.