Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:43:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911102324360.39455-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:26:39PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911102324360.39455-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said: > I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm > using ntpdate. But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is > running every few minutes. I noticed this when my ppp connection is > down, it complains that it can't find any route to host. I don't see > a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. > Where else should i look? /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i > know. xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and constantly updates the time in the background. If you want to stop it, kill the process. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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