Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:26:02 +0400 From: vippy <vip3r@inbox.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: from src/etc/rc.d/ntpd: required_files="/etc/ntp.conf" Message-ID: <1093303561.15161.30.camel@vipehost.vipenet.lan>
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I'm wondering having in my rc.conf legal assignment:
ntpd_flags="-A -c /etc/ntpd.conf -f /var/db/ntpd.drift \
-l /var/log/ntpd.log -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
Why /etc/rc.d/ntpd script requires /etc/ntp.conf file as a config file
for NTP daemon? This file even isn't exist by default (cause ntpd is
contributed software, right?), so system administrator should create new
file, named by his own rules. Often it'll be ${name}.conf -> ntpd.conf.
So i see there 3 different ways to fix this (wrong?) behavior:
1) Simply fix src/rc.d/ntpd (here's THE PATCH =))
"--- /etc/rc.d/ntpd Tue Aug 24 03:12:38 2004
+++ /usr/src/etc/rc.d/ntpd Sat Jul 3 01:38:57 2004
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
-required_files="/etc/${name}.conf"
+required_files="/etc/ntp.conf"
ntpd_precmd()
{"
2) Add new variable "ntpd_conf" to rc.conf (and use it in etc/rc.d/ntpd
rc.ng) which will represent path to ntpd config file (default to
etc/ntpd.conf in etc/defaults/rc.conf).
3) Somehow (gtopt(1)?) parse ntpd_flags variable from rc.conf to find
what is after "-c" and use it in etc/rc.d/ntpd.
Thanks, for your attention.
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