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Date:      Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:06:19 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Fred Condo <fred@fredcondo.net>
Cc:        ivan dimitrov <dimitrovi58@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: two ntpd
Message-ID:  <20080215130619.e158c6d6.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <D1CDB244-E2B9-4C26-BD16-2B136C34E90D@fredcondo.net>
References:  <747768.7737.qm@web56814.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <D1CDB244-E2B9-4C26-BD16-2B136C34E90D@fredcondo.net>

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In response to Fred Condo <fred@fredcondo.net>:

> On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:24 AM, ivan dimitrov wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > is it normal to have two ntpds?
> >  767  ??  Ss     0:37.28 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> > ntpd.pid
> >  844  ??  S      0:00.95 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> > ntpd.pid
> >
> > Regards
> > Ivan
> >
> 
> No:
> 
> [fred@miso ~]$ ps ax | grep ntp
>    940  ??  Ss     1:01.96 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift

Did you somehow replace the system ntpd with OpenNTPD?  OpenNTPD uses
privilege separation, and thus two processes is normal operation for
it.

Of course, from ports it installs in /usr/local/sbin and gets its
config from /usr/local/etc.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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