Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:46:24 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> To: "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: cy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot specify ntpd binary in ports with ntpd startup file. Message-ID: <48ae339f-df32-371f-f51f-55c4531848bf@nethead.se> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1808281732590.3308@prime.gushi.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1808281732590.3308@prime.gushi.org>
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Hi,
On 8/29/18 2:34 AM, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> 1) Got the version wrong. I'm on 10.4.
>
> 2) Forgot a subject. Whoops.
>
> 3) Forgot to cc maintainer. Doh!
>
> -Dan
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Funny question. I'm on FreeBSD 11.4, and would like to use the latest
>> version of NTP, which is in pkg.
>>
>> The version in pkg doesn't have a startup script, which I'm not sure
>> is supposed to be the case. I know for things like BIND (when it was
>> both in base and in ports) you could override the binary in /etc/rc.conf.
>>
>> However, the version of /etc/rc.d/ntpd in BASE doesn't seem to have
>> the ability to override the binary in rc.conf:
>>
>> name="ntpd"
>> rcvar="ntpd_enable"
>> command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
>> pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
>> extra_commands="fetch"
>> fetch_cmd="ntpd_fetch_leapfile"
>> start_precmd="ntpd_precmd"
>>
>> What's weirder, is even if I manually modify the /etc/rc.d/ntpd file
>> to point at /usr/local/sbin (which I should never have to do), the
>> version in /usr/sbin gets started.
>>
>> root@vortex2:/etc/rc.d # service ntpd start
>> Starting ntpd.
>> root@vortex2:/etc/rc.d # ps auxwww|grep ntpd
>> root 36362 38.3 0.2 26192 18132 - Ss 12:17AM 0:04.73
>> /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f
>> /var/db/ntpd.drift
>> root 36364 0.0 0.0 18844 2328 1 R+ 12:17AM 0:00.00 grep
>> ntpd
>> root@vortex2:/etc/rc.d # grep command ntpd
>> command="/usr/local/sbin/${name}"
>> [...]
>>
>> So, asking as a port maintainer, a few questions:
>>
>> 0) Why the heck is it doing this even when I override the path?
>>
>> 1) How can we encourage base to allow override of command_name?
>>
>> 2) Is this a brokenness in the port that it doesn't ship with a
>> startup file?
>>
>> 3) Not strictly related, but what's the proper case for pathing since
>> things like "ntpq", the base path would naturally be found in any
>> standard $PATH. Some ports used to have an overwrite_base option, but
>> this also feels wrong as it breaks freebsd-update in various ways.
>> I.e. should the port print a message stating that you should chmod 000
>> the original binaries? Should the ports versions be named something
>> different? Should the port just warn you that you need to call these
>> things by absolute path, always?
>>
I think you should post your /etc/rc.conf
There are lots of defaults in 11-STABLE which I run:
grep ntp defaults/rc.conf
ntpdate_enable="NO" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO).
ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin/ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if you want a
different one.
ntpdate_flags="-b" # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled).
ntpdate_config="/etc/ntp.conf" # ntpdate(8) configuration file
ntpdate_hosts="" # Whitespace-separated list of
ntpdate(8) servers.
ntpd_enable="NO" # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO).
ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" # path to ntpd, if you want a different one.
ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf" # ntpd(8) configuration file
ntpd_sync_on_start="NO" # Sync time on ntpd startup, even if
offset is high
ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift"
# Flags to ntpd (if enabled).
ntp_src_leapfile="/etc/ntp/leap-seconds"
# Initial source for ntpd leapfile
ntp_db_leapfile="/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list"
ntp_leapfile_sources="https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list"
ntp_leapfile_fetch_opts="-mq" # Options to use for ntp leapfile fetch,
ntp_leapfile_expiry_days=30 # Check for new leapfile 30 days prior to
ntp_leapfile_fetch_verbose="NO" # Be verbose during NTP leapfile fetch
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