From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 19:31: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B15151F0 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA00230; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:30:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05922; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:30:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id WAA42353; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:30:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:30:29 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199903110330.WAA42353@lakes.dignus.com> To: dahlmand@gte.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd question In-Reply-To: <36E6D5FB.1463B305@gte.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In the FreeBDS book it says to leave the xntpd_flags =" " > In thr rc.conf file it is set to > xntpd_flags="-p /var/run/xntpd.pid" # Flags to xntpd (if enabled). > > so which is correct.? > I use the latter one: xntpd_flags="-p /var/run/xntpd.pid" which simply tells xntpd to write its process-ID number in a file... that can be nice if you need to shut-down xntpd for some reason. For more info, see the man page... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message