From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 15:25:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 CC59216A427 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:25:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0103043D64 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:24:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6MFOVtc054137 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (mikef@localhost) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j6MFOUBS054134 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU) X-Authentication-Warning: malcolm.berkeley.edu: mikef owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Friedman X-X-Sender: mikef@malcolm.berkeley.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050722081554.U53583@malcolm.berkeley.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (malcolm.berkeley.edu [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Possible problem with periodic daily processing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:25:10 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Because of clock drift on my system, I decided to run ntpdate daily, instead of just at boot time. So, what I did was create a symlink in /etc/periodic/daily: 600.ntpdate -> /etc/rc.d/ntpdate, thus leveraging the existing ntpdate script that runs at boot time. My rc.conf already has 'ntpdate_enable="YES"' and sets 'ntpdate_program' and 'ntpdate_hosts'. In fact, if I cd to /etc/periodic/daily and manually enter './600.ntpdate start', it runs fine. Yet, it appears that ntpdate is NOT running automatically each day as part of periodic daily processing. Any ideas on why this is the case? Is there a restriction about symlinks and periodic processing? Thanks. Mike _____________________________________________________________________ Mike Friedman System and Network Security mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU 2484 Shattuck Avenue 1-510-642-1410 University of California at Berkeley http://ack.Berkeley.EDU/~mikef http://security.berkeley.edu _____________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQuEPq60bf1iNr4mCEQIpvQCeL6NFxJOpHJooAlCNdkGPXk9dKRkAoKvc rkkSzwZ427LzWtk5noEDZqMe =SRPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----