From d04c39d753ef17108516d054c4bd89a69de44616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Kauffmann Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:24:18 +0200 Subject: ntpd: switch service type from forking to simple Type=forking means systemd waits untill the main process, /usr/sbin/ntpd in this case, has exited. However, the ntpd daemon does not seem to call fork() or vfork() and runs endlessly untill killed. Eventually, this causes systemd to trigger a timeout, and the ntpd service is killed. All the while, "systemctl status ntpd" shows "activating (start)" instead of "active (running)". This is fixed by switching Type=forking to Type=simple. Reading ntpd(8) shows that the "-n" option requests ntpd not to fork, so also use that to be safe. Finally, there is no need anymore to keep a pidfile around. Signed-off-by: Johannes Kauffmann Signed-off-by: Khem Raj --- meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service index 0e3d7cd37..d793db4a7 100644 --- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ Description=Network Time Service After=network.target [Service] -Type=forking -PIDFile=/run/ntpd.pid -ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /run/ntpd.pid -g +Type=simple +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp -n -g [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf