diff --git a/general/overlay/etc/init.d/S49ntpd b/general/overlay/etc/init.d/S49ntpd
index f161689d..a070ed98 100755
--- a/general/overlay/etc/init.d/S49ntpd
+++ b/general/overlay/etc/init.d/S49ntpd
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 DAEMON="ntpd"
 PIDFILE="/var/run/$DAEMON.pid"
 
-NTPD_ARGS=""
+NTPD_ARGS="-n"
 
 # shellcheck source=/dev/null
 [ -r "/etc/default/$DAEMON" ] && . "/etc/default/$DAEMON"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ start() {
 	printf 'Starting %s: ' "$DAEMON"
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2086 # we need the word splitting
 	start-stop-daemon -b -m -S -q -p "$PIDFILE" -x "/usr/sbin/$DAEMON" \
-		-- -n $NTPD_ARGS
+		-- $NTPD_ARGS
 	status=$?
 	if [ "$status" -eq 0 ]; then
 		echo "OK"