Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes:
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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