From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 15:44:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE9E14E1E for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35562; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:43:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:43:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:26:39PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said: > I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm > using ntpdate. But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is > running every few minutes. I noticed this when my ppp connection is > down, it complains that it can't find any route to host. I don't see > a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. > Where else should i look? /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i > know. xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and constantly updates the time in the background. If you want to stop it, kill the process. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message