Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:02:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "T.C. Owen" <tcowen@tcowen.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <20020902200259.GB89203@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com> References: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com>
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:29:56AM -0400, T.C. Owen wrote:
> when I run ntpd it always creates two processes; is it supposed to do
> that?
When ntpd starts up, it forks a process to start the sync. Once the
child completes (in about 3-5 minutes), it should terminate and go
away. The system only needs to record the parent's pid as it is the
controller process.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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