From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 11:32:32 2002 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 10C7037B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FDD43E75 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 613B99FF0; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:32:27 +0200 (MEST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h11n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.11]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEEC9F5C; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:32:25 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3D73AEA8.80C5DD30@cs.umu.se> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:32:08 +0200 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "T.C. Owen" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startup problem (ntpd) References: <3D73ABE8.8060601@tcowen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "T.C. Owen" wrote: > > when ntpd is started it says un-parsable frequency in > /etc/ntp.drift and startup completely stops > how do I get in to remove ntpd from startup? To disable ntpd (/etc/rc.conf): xntpd_enable="NO" My ntp.drift file looks like this: fw# more /etc/ntp.drift -283.881 How does your drift file look like? You could try to re- move it, and a new one will be created, after a while, which might be parsable. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message