How do I disable ntpd?

Question

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

Answer 1

To stop ntpd:

sudo /etc/init.d/ntp stop

or

sudo service ntp stop

To prevent it from starting at boot:

sudo update-rc.d -f ntp remove

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

With systemd, the two commands are:

sudo systemctl stop ntp
sudo systemctl disable ntp

Output (I think the warning can be ignored)

ntp.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable ntp
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `ntp' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1 2 3 4 5) of script `ntp' overrides LSB defaults (1).
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `ntp' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1 2 3 4 5) of script `ntp' overrides LSB defaults (1).

Check:

systemctl is-enabled ntp

Output

ntp.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install is-enabled ntp
disabled