On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:19:16 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> This is unusable information. Raspbian doesn't use ntp/ntpd since Debian
> switched to systemd, it's not even installed. Details here, for
> instance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-timesyncd It
> should work out of the box: if the local dhcp server provides (an) ntp
> server address(es), timesyncd will use it. Check which servers are used
> via "timedatectl show-timesync --all"

Err, no.

ntpd is included in Buster, but not as a separate package: according to
"apt search ntpd" its part of collectd-core/stable 5.8.1-1.3 armhf
The associated packages ntp-doc and ntpdate are also part of Buster.

You're right that it wasn't part of wheezy, jessie or stretch but the
Buster insitu upgrade installed it when I did that the other week. It was
trivia to customise ntpd on my RPi by copying ntp.conf from this laptop
to my RPi.

ntpd currently up and running, though the setup is a bit Mickey Mouse
since systemctl doesn't know it exists. It is apparently controlled via
the old System V init script because that has been installed as /etc/
init.d/ntp - since its starting up automatically at boot time and running
quietly in the background I've not yet made the time to find out
anything more about the mechanism that's launching it.


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