Re: timedatectl DHCP NTP Server

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 2/5/2021 4:33 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 07:22:27 -0700
> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 07:24:05 +0100
> > john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It does work fine for me, is the lease showing the ntp server?
> >
> > I don't know. The computer in question is a laptop and using wifi and
> > NetworkManager. There is no dhcp.leases file for the wifi nic. There
> > is an old one for the wired nic, which shows the ntp server.
> >
> > I forced a renewal of the lease, and looked at syslog. NM reports
> > plenty of information about the lease, but not the time server option.
> >
> > Is there a way to learn this other than the leases file?
>
> I have two other machines running the systemd time client. Both are
> Bullseye. Both show that they are using the local NTP server. Neither
> is running NetworkManager.
>
> Is NetworkManager causing problems here?

For lack of time, I resorted to use systemd-timesyncd but apparently you
need to configure NM to handle NTP server by way of a hook or tweaking
the profile for the desired connection.

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John Doe