NTP slowing down system shutdown, how to disable?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:01:20PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> I'm using a Dell T3500 running Fedora 20 x86_64. It's on a private network
> not connected to the Internet, and with no NTP server. When I shut down the
> machine, it pauses for more than a minute at
>     A stop job is running for NTP client/server.
> I don't think I enabled NTP when I installed it, but I've done
>     systemctl disable ntpd.service
> and the same for ntpdate and sntp, but it still pauses for that stop job.
> Why is it doing that, and what can I do to make it skip that? I'm having a
> hard time learning the ins and outs of systemd.

One of the first things to learn is that "disable" doesn't mean "disable".
"mask" means "disable". (Something that's merely the former can be started
by other things.) So, you could try 'systemctl mask ntpd.service".

You may want to try chrony instead, by the way. Not to be confused with
cronie -- *sigh*.



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