[NTLUG:Discuss] DHCP/Ntp.conf issue

[Ed Coates]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Stephen Davidson wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Whenever I connect my computer via DHCP to a network, my /etc/ntp.conf file gets overwritten (generally with a totally useless "loopback" clock).  The original file gets saved, and is restored once my network connections are
> terminated.  Needless to say, this does bad things to my system clock.
>
> Questions:
> Is there a way to get the DHCP server to send a valid ntp.conf file?  I was unable to find anything in the Man pages on this. I have admin access to the DHCP servers on two of the networks, so can put this in myself in those
> cases.
> If there is not a way to get this file sent from the DHCP server, is it possible to disable this behaviour on a SuSE 8.2 client?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
Steve,

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp and set DHCLIENT_MODIFY_NTP_CONF to
DHCLIENT_MODIFY_NTP_CONF="no"

That should take care of it for you.

Ed