From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 17: 9: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D9214C91 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max9-03.gbis.net [207.228.62.67]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01229; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01776; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <016401bf2be1$51c27e40$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" , Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. Try looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf. The daemon is controlled by the line xntpd_enable="YES" # Run xntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). You can set up /etc/ntp.conf so xntpd uses your system's clock when you aren't connected to the Internet (in essence, free-running), this will stop the annoying messages: # Use local clock as reference when PPP connection not active server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 Hope this helps, --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message