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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:15:26 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
To:        Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: from src/etc/rc.d/ntpd: required_files="/etc/ntp.conf"
Message-ID:  <p06002009bd7ca95e6a22@[10.0.1.4]>
In-Reply-To: <415620EB.6050603@yahoo.com>
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At 10:52 AM +0900 2004-09-26, Rob quoted Scot Hetzel:

>>  If you look at the man page for ntpd, the default configuration file
>>  is /etc/ntpd.conf, so you shouldn't need to specify '-c <ntpd conf
>>  file>' to the ntpd_flags variable.  Also, you don't need the '-p <ntpd
>>  pid file>' in the ntpd_flags as it is the default.

	Are you sure it's /etc/ntpd.conf and not /etc/ntp.conf?

>  On my 5.3-BETA5 system, I have an empty /etc/ntp/ directory.
>  Where does that come from? Seems to be not used at all by
>  any of the ntp(d) programs, or is it? Should it be removed?

	Well, speaking for the version of ntpd from ntp.org, we don't 
make use of any /etc/ntp directory.  I'm not aware of what may have 
been done with it for FreeBSD.

-- 
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