From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sat Jul 21 17:11:52 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A031050E8B for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:11:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C23B2705A8; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [IPv6:2605:e000:1313:89:223:24ff:fea8:4fb5] (2605:e000:1313:89:223:24ff:fea8:4fb5 [IPv6:2605:e000:1313:89:223:24ff:fea8:4fb5]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 2f1d9056 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question To: Ian Lepore , FreeBSD Current References: <5b90c49f-4616-9ef7-28a1-6445137245ef@nomadlogic.org> <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <4b7acbd2-0230-345c-4370-24a72d0b492a@nomadlogic.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:11:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:11:52 -0000 On 07/21/2018 09:47, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 09:41 -0700, Pete Wright wrote: >> hello - i am testing out the new ntpd that was committed yesterday and >> am attempting to run as non-root.  i've created a ntpd user/group, and >> verified permissions look good on pertinent directories.  i am running >> into an issue with the rc script tho - it's complaining about multiple >> pid files being specified? >> >> $ sudo /etc/rc.d/ntpd start >> Starting ntpd. >> ntpd error:  only one pidfile option allowed >> ntpd - NTP daemon program - Ver. 4.2.8p11 >> Usage:  ntpd [ - [] | --[{=| }] ]... \ >>          [ ... ] >> Try 'ntpd --help' for more information. >> /etc/rc.d/ntpd: WARNING: failed to start ntpd >> >> >> has anyone else seen this issue? not sure if this is an issue with my >> local config or not, i've read through the rc script and its not obvious >> to me yet why it may be getting multiple pid arguments passed.  the only >> relevant bit i have set in rc.conf is: >> >> $ grep ntpd /etc/rc.conf >> ntpd_enable="YES" >> >> >> thanks! >> -pete >> > You say you created an ntpd user/group, that seems to imply you didn't > run mergemaster (which would have done that). If that's the case, you > probably also didn't get /etc/defaults/rc.conf updated, so it still has > the old ntpd_flags that includes the pidfile (which is now provided by > the startup script and shouldn't be set in ntpd_flags). > > If all of that is the wrong guess, let me know and we'll figure it out. that's Ian - that's most likely it (defaults/rc.conf).  i did run mergemaster but i suspect i didn't run it correctly b/c it didn't copy over any files, nor create the ntpd uid/gid.  my buildworld script does a "mergemaster -m $CHECKOUT -a".  i'll re-read the man page today and update my scripts accordingly. thanks again for the bread-crumb! -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA