Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 09:22:27 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10.3 No ntpd.pid file created Message-ID: <dd0a2a61c5bac09fbdacb100974b942f.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <mailman.98.1486468802.21252.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.98.1486468802.21252.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, February 6, 2017 19:04, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 06/02/2017 21:42, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
>> Somehow system 1 is starting ntpd without passing the pidfile
>> argument. However, I have diffed the /etc/rc.d/ntpd files from both
>> systems against each other and there are no differences. So, how
>> can
>> this be?
>
> grep ntp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.d/* /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>
> Look for the setting of a variable 'ntpd_flags' specifically.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
That was it exactly. Our /etc/rc.conf was overriding /etc/rc.d/ntpd
by setting ntpd_flags="". I must have done this when trying to
discover why ntpd kept halting on our samba server without
understanding the implications. Well, I do now.
Thank you very much.
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