by default /etc/init.d/ntp-client has separate from /etc/ntp.conf server list in /etc/conf.d/ntp-client Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1 show servers from /etc/ntp.conf : grep ^server /etc/ntp.conf 2 show servers from /etc/conf.d/ntp-client : cat /etc/conf.d/ntp-client Actual Results: same servers speciefed in two places Expected Results: one servers list in /etc/ntp.conf replace NTPCLIENT_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/ntp-client to read servers from ntp.conf for example: NTPCLIENT_OPTS="-s -b -u $( awk '$1 ~ "^server" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf )"