Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:44:18PM -0500: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: > > > I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via > > > DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will > > > automatically rewrite your ntp.conf if it receives NTP info via DHCP, > > > but I would prefer to stick with the ISC version of DHCP if at all > > > possible. I've found the dhclient hooks, but as far as I can tell it's > > > impossible to actually get at the NTP server info using them. Any ideas? > > > > I think that the version of dhclient from sid (version 3.mumble) supports > > setting NTP servers via DHCP. I'm pretty sure that the version in woody does > > not support this (either dhcp-client or dhcp3-client). > > I use sid and I just did an update a few days ago and as far as I can > tell, that functionality still isn't there. I could be missing something > though, so any ideas where I can look to see if it's maybe trying to > work but not succeeding? Sorry, I must have been dreaming; my sid box doesn't have any of that either, although it looks like you could add a hook in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d to re-write your ntp.conf and restart the ntp daemon. M
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