Can't get NetworkManager to configure ntp

[Sam Varshavchik]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes:

> 
> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:
>> When I plug it in, the machine gets its IP address, router IP, and DNS
>> ip, but ntp.conf does not get updated.
> 
> You might want to try without network manager first.  I just have each
> interface marked as dynamic in system-configure-network.  When
> dhcpclient runs separately on each interfaces it does edit
> /etc/ntpd.conf as expected.

Since this is a laptop with wireless, I need NetworkManager.

>> How do I debug this?  I tried stracing the NetworkManager process, but
>> I cannot see it forking/cloning/execing dhclient and dhclient-script.
> 
> I've always had good luck hacking chclient-script to echo/concatenate
> all of its calling args along with a timestamp into a log file in
> /tmp.  eg.
> 
>      echo "$(date) $@" >> /tmp/dhclient.log

Yes, I managed to find the dhclient-script.  I found out that it gets called 
with the dhc_dbus environment variable containing a value of "31", that 
causes the script to _skip_ modifications to the /etc files.  That raises 
more questions than it answers.


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