From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 17:36:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C56616A4CE for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379A943D41 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i8QHaIFg026953; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:36:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@127.0.0.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <415620EB.6050603@yahoo.com> References: <1093303561.15161.30.camel@vipehost.vipenet.lan> <790a9fff0408240718231b1e4a@mail.gmail.com> <415620EB.6050603@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:15:26 +0200 To: Rob From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from src/etc/rc.d/ntpd: required_files="/etc/ntp.conf" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:36:21 -0000 At 10:52 AM +0900 2004-09-26, Rob quoted Scot Hetzel: >> If you look at the man page for ntpd, the default configuration file >> is /etc/ntpd.conf, so you shouldn't need to specify '-c > file>' to the ntpd_flags variable. Also, you don't need the '-p > pid file>' in the ntpd_flags as it is the default. Are you sure it's /etc/ntpd.conf and not /etc/ntp.conf? > On my 5.3-BETA5 system, I have an empty /etc/ntp/ directory. > Where does that come from? Seems to be not used at all by > any of the ntp(d) programs, or is it? Should it be removed? Well, speaking for the version of ntpd from ntp.org, we don't make use of any /etc/ntp directory. I'm not aware of what may have been done with it for FreeBSD. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.