Hmmm… It appears that the systemd package in stretch (9.5) has a patch for this: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf
But this is not present in buster. Curiouser and curiouser… ======================== Package: systemd Version: 232-25+deb9u4 has the file ======================== Package: systemd Version: 239-11 does not have the file Enjoy! Rick > On Oct 31, 2018, at 3:07 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to disable systemd-timesyncd whenever ntp is installed? > > Apparently, according to Jozsef’s contribution to this bug, the openntpd > package has figured out how to do this. Can the same mechanism (whatever it > is) be used in the ntp package? > > Thanks! > Rick