From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 06:24:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BDB16A41A for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (mail.geekisp.com [216.168.135.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352BC13C448 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: (qmail 24537 invoked by uid 1003); 13 Dec 2007 05:57:58 -0000 Received: from clam.int.geekisp.com (HELO clam.geekisp.com) (192.168.4.38) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Dec 2007 05:57:58 -0000 Received: from clam.geekisp.com (njt@localhost.geekisp.com [127.0.0.1]) by clam.geekisp.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBD5vOBk016638; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:57:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from njt@localhost) by clam.geekisp.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id lBD5vLWE028260; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:57:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: clam.geekisp.com: njt set sender to njt@ayvali.org using -f Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:57:21 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: jekillen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071213055721.GW7374@ayvali.org> References: <83a69c3afc2408681310e88ad2f9dd80@prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83a69c3afc2408681310e88ad2f9dd80@prodigy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Subject: Re: ntpd configuration file changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:24:06 -0000 * jekillen [2007-12-12 20:42:47-0800]: > Q: When making changes to ntp.conf it is necessary to restart the > server? According to the ntpd docs, yes. The ntpd configuration docs say this: Ordinarily, ntpd reads the ntp.conf configuration file at startup time in order to determine the synchronization sources and operating modes. > Q: How is that done? On FreeBSD, it is typically done via "/etc/rc.d/ntpd restart". > (I suspect ntpd reload or restart per rc script.. along the lines of > apachectl restart or postfix reload??? Kill -HUP pid ??? ) I am > looking at FreeBSD handbook and ntp documentation and have not found > the answers. See the "Using rc under FreeBSD" section of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html It is based on Luke Mewburn's excellent NetBSD rc.d system. See the document, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system" (PDF) here, it is an excellent read: http://www.mewburn.net/luke/bibliography.html Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo