From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jan 11 14:23:31 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1477816A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:23:31 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from nabi1.snu.ac.kr (nabi1.snu.ac.kr [147.46.100.51])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F4643D45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:23:30 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com)
Received: from [147.46.100.31] ([147.46.100.31]) 
          by nabi1.snu.ac.kr ([147.46.100.51]) 
          with ESMTP id 2005011123:24:31:739238.17372.3068410800
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; 
          Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:24:31 +0900 (KST) 
Received: from [147.46.44.181] (spamrefuse@yahoo.com) by 
          auk1.snu.ac.kr (Terrace Internet Messaging Server) 
          with ESMTP id 2005011123:23:11:572905.23928.2889509808
          for <imoore@picknowl.com.au>; 
          Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:23:11 +0900 (KST) 
Message-ID: <41E3E160.7030107@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:23:28 +0900
From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au>,
	FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
References: <200501112100.10680.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200501112100.10680.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: NO       (SR:4.16)                     
  (by Terrace)                                                   
Subject: Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:23:31 -0000

Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the 
> following error on boot:
> ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1
> ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign 
> requested address
> 
> ntpd seems to be working from what I can see in it's log file, but I can't do 
> anything with ntpq to check it. 
> Wether I run it as my normal user or as root, running ntpq -p always gives:
> ntpq: write to localhost.foo.com failed: Permission denied
> 

I had once a problem with ntpd, when also running named. Some hostname
resolution failed, because the servers were started in the wrong order.
Are you also running named?

> Here is my ntpd entries in rc.conf:
> ntpd_enable="YES"               # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO).
> ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd"   # path to ntpd, if you want a different one.
> ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"

I use:
  ntpd_enable="YES"
  ntpd_flags="-g"

> and the contents of ntp.conf:
> server          210.48.130.204
> server          augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
> driftfile       /var/db/ntpd.drift
> logfile         /var/log/ntpd

And here I use:
  driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift
  pidfile /var/run/ntpd.pid
  server nr1.time.server
  server nr2.time.server
  server nr3.time.server


Does that help you?

Rob.