The NTP service doesn't work on Raspberry Pi 3

[ricardogabriel5]

Hi everybody!

In my Raspberry Pi 3 the NTP service doesn't work.

I have installed the NTP program with: sudo apt-get install ntp, but the service doesn't work.

When executing the command: sudo service ntp status

I get the following message:

● ntp.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

The operating system is Raspbian 8 (jessie).

How do I run the NTP service?

Regards,

[topguy]

Does "systemctl status ntp" give the same output ?

I just did the same as you and got

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status ntp
● ntp.service - Network Time Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ntp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-03-03 16:21:52 CET; 16s ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(8)
 Main PID: 4330 (ntpd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 2200)
   Memory: 1.2M
   CGroup: /system.slice/ntp.service
           └─4330 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 111:116
....

My system:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Raspbian
Description:	Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster

"Jessie" is horribly outdated, you should really try to do a reinstall with Buster.

[ricardogabriel5]

topguy,

Does "systemctl status ntp" give the same output ?

Yes, I get the same output:

● ntp.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

My System:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release: 8.0
Codename: jessie

About the version of Rasbian, I can't update the operating system. I use seismology software, and the software developer suggests not updating the operating system.

[jj_0]

What about systemd-timesyncd, the alternative to ntp?

[DougieLawson]

You have to disable systemd-timesyncd to get ntp running.

[ricardogabriel5]

You have to disable systemd-timesyncd to get ntp running.

I disabled systemd-timesyncd and ntp service works now.

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# systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd
# systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd

Thanks!!!

[ricardogabriel5]

What about systemd-timesyncd, the alternative to ntp?

Yes. After I was able to run the ntp service, I removed ntp and I enabled the systemd-timesyncd service.

https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tim ... d-systemd/

It worked very well too.

Thanks!!!