Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 07:55:46 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@foobie.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd startup duplication Message-ID: <20000505075546.B13920@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200005050742.AAA00400@foobie.net>; from sbeitzel@foobie.net on Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:42:06AM -0700 References: <200005050742.AAA00400@foobie.net>
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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:42:06AM -0700, Stephen Beitzel wrote:
> I have noticed that when I start up my FreeBSD (3.4) box, xntpd gets started
> twice. The second time, it fails to run (gracefully) and writes a message to
> the console saying that the port it wanted to use was already in use by
> something else. (Duh. The first instance of xntpd.)
>
> Anyway, I finally got curious and went looking through the /etc/rc* files.
> It turns out that /etc/rc and /etc/rc.network both invoke xntpd. The test
> is different, though:
>
> >From /etc/rc:
> if [ "X${xntpd_enable}" != X"NO" ]; then
> echo -n ' xntpd'; xntpd
> fi
This is not in the current /etc/rc file for FreeBSD 3.4. What is the
version of this file (the second line at the top, starting with
'$FreeBSD').
> >From /etc/rc.network:
> if [ "X${xntpd_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
> echo -n ' xntpd'; ${xntpd_program} ${xntpd_flags}
> fi
>
> A couple of thoughts occured to me.
> 1) It seems silly to me to have this test occur in two places. Probably,
> whoever the maintainer is for the rc files ought to remove it from
> one of them.
It's not there now.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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