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To: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
Subject: Re: conf/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well
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John,

you are absolutely right!
I added the flags you suggested and now ntpd starts and stops as expected.
Thank you!

Just in case, I still can't get -L flag work, exactly as described here: 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/128886
Have you any idea about it? :)

Best,

Maurizio



Il 25/03/2013 02:27, John Marshall ha scritto:
>> Calling /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop issue an error "ntpd not running? (check /var/run/ntpd.pid)." but ntpd is active!
> Please check to see if you have set ntpd_flags in your /etc/rc.conf.
> Note the default contents of this variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>
>    ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift"
>
> If you define ntpd_flags in your /etc/rc.conf, you override the default
> ntpd_flags.  In order to retain the expected behaviour of the rc script,
> you need to include the default ntpd_flags in your modified variable.
> So, if you want to pass other flags to ntpd, then you would put this in
> your /etc/rc.conf
>
>    ntpd_flags="<other flags> -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift"
>
> Please let us know if this solves your problem so that the PR can be
> closed.
>