misc/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well

[Maurizio Giunti]

>Number:         177089
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       ntpd startup script does not work well
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 18 21:50:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Maurizio Giunti
>Release:        9.1 amd64
>Organization:
MGShareware
>Environment:
FreeBSD deathstar.homegiunti 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
Calling /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop issue an error "ntpd not running? (check /var/run/ntpd.pid)." but ntpd is active!


# /etc/rc.d/ntpd start
Starting ntpd.
# ps auxww | grep ntpd
root     2577   0.5  0.1 22196 4052 ??  Ss   10:37PM   0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -L
# cat /var/run/ntpd.pid
cat: /var/run/ntpd.pid: No such file or directory
# /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop
ntpd not running? (check /var/run/ntpd.pid).

But ntpd is actually running:
# ps auxww | grep ntpd
root     2577   0.0  0.1 22196 4064 ??  Ss   10:37PM   0:00.06 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -L


>How-To-Repeat:
Enable ntpd in your /etc/rc.conf file with
echo "ntpd_enable='YES'" >> /etc/rc.conf

Start ntpd with
/etc/rc.d/ntpd start

Than stop it with
/etc/rc.d/ntpd stop

You get the error "ntpd not running? (check /var/run/ntpd.pid)."

Use 
ps auxww | grep ntpd

to check that NTPD is actually running.




>Fix:


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