On Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 00:23:00 +0200, Tom Van Looy wrote:
>Hi, I wanted to let my ntp client use the servers it receives from the
>dhcp server (3.0 from packages). I made it working like this:
>
>I added ntp-servers to /etc/dhclient.conf, and the following function to
>the /sbin/dhclient-script script:
>
>add_new_ntp() {
> if [ -n "$new_ntp_servers" ]; then
> sed "/^server/d" /etc/ntpd.conf > /etc/ntpd.conf.new
> for address in $new_ntp_servers; do
> echo "server" $address >> /etc/ntpd.conf.new
> done
> mv /etc/ntpd.conf.new /etc/ntpd.conf && pkill -KILL ntpd && ntpd
> fi
>}
>
>I use add_new_ntp after add_new_routes in BOUND|RENEW|REBIND|REBOOT)
>
>Is this the right way to do let ntp use dhclient?
>And, is what I did in add_new_ntp() the best way to do it?
I'm not sure if it is wise to restart ntpd each time your dhcp
lease is renewed. ntpd needs some time to settle and this will
interrupt this process again and again.
Maurice
