On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> Yes, I am running dhcp ... however this does not happen on my FreeBSD
> box also running dhcp.  Is this perhaps a bug in dhcpcd?  FreeBSD uses
> isc-dhcp for its client software, and there is no trouble with
> overwriting this file.  I do know that my dhcp server is not setup at
> all to configure ntp resources on the client.
> 
> So ... what can I do to fix this?

To quote my own sig file, it's not a bug, it's a feature. I happen to think
that the dhcpc guys implemented the feature in a really irritating way, but
that's how it is. The intent of the feature is to allow the dhcp server to
update the client with ntp settings based on the local network configuration.
This is a bit of a problem, though, seeing as very few dhcp servers appear to
be configured to actually DO so, so it ends up by default updating it to
either something useless, or removing the file entirely.
The solution is, as Spider said, to add a -N flag to your dhcpc options in
the dhcpcd_eth0= line. I have also added a -Y on mine, because it pulls the
same nonsense with I think ypbind.conf (something like that, anyways).

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