nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/networking/ntpd.nix
Eelco Dolstra b61d4ac6a5 ntpd: Fork into the background
With -n, ntpd will write log messages to both syslog and stderr, which
is ugly.
2015-01-28 15:34:42 +01:00

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{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
inherit (pkgs) ntp;
stateDir = "/var/lib/ntp";
ntpUser = "ntp";
configFile = pkgs.writeText "ntp.conf" ''
driftfile ${stateDir}/ntp.drift
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict -6 ::1
${toString (map (server: "server " + server + " iburst\n") config.services.ntp.servers)}
'';
ntpFlags = "-c ${configFile} -u ${ntpUser}:nogroup";
in
{
###### interface
options = {
services.ntp = {
enable = mkOption {
default = !config.boot.isContainer;
description = ''
Whether to synchronise your machine's time using the NTP
protocol.
'';
};
servers = mkOption {
default = [
"0.nixos.pool.ntp.org"
"1.nixos.pool.ntp.org"
"2.nixos.pool.ntp.org"
"3.nixos.pool.ntp.org"
];
description = ''
The set of NTP servers from which to synchronise.
'';
};
};
};
###### implementation
config = mkIf config.services.ntp.enable {
# Make tools such as ntpq available in the system path.
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.ntp ];
users.extraUsers = singleton
{ name = ntpUser;
uid = config.ids.uids.ntp;
description = "NTP daemon user";
home = stateDir;
};
systemd.services.ntpd =
{ description = "NTP Daemon";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
preStart =
''
mkdir -m 0755 -p ${stateDir}
chown ${ntpUser} ${stateDir}
'';
serviceConfig = {
ExecStart = "@${ntp}/bin/ntpd ntpd -g ${ntpFlags}";
Type = "forking";
};
};
};
}