Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:34:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple ntpd processes Message-ID: <20080612223400.GA68401@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <560f92640806121417v792f1134medc75be8a164da16@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640806121417v792f1134medc75be8a164da16@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.0, and I have 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in my /etc/rc.conf.
> Every time I reboot my server, I get two ntpd processes:
>
> nlandys@daffy# ps -U root | grep ntpd
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 571 ?? Ss 0:00.12 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p
> /var/run/ntpd.pid
> 686 ?? S 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p
> /var/run/ntpd.pid
This is normal. ntpd spawns a secondary process to check timesyncs on
startup. Have a look at the parent-child links with "ps l". It goes
away after it has decided which time-source to use.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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