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I'm running Ubuntu in a VM. How do I disable ntpd?

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Out of curiosity, why would you want to? Does it do harm when running on a VM? –  Snekse Dec 19 '12 at 19:04

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To stop ntpd:

sudo /etc/init.d/ntp stop


sudo service ntp stop

To prevent it from starting at boot:

sudo update-rc.d -f ntp remove
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Uninstall ntpd if it is installed. You will still have ntpdate installed. (It is difficult to remove.) Prevent it from executing by adding exit 0 to /etc/default/ntpdate.

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Check this out


or try this:

/sbin/chkconfig ntpd off

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-1 chkconfig it's not in Ubuntu/Debian. It's RedHat (and other rpm based distros) specific. –  Mr Shunz Mar 9 '11 at 15:41

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