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[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

Hey all,

Funny question.  I'm on FreeBSD 11.4, and would like to use the latest 
version of NTP, which is in pkg.

The version in pkg doesn't have a startup script, which I'm not sure is 
supposed to be the case.  I know for things like BIND (when it was both 
in base and in ports) you could override the binary in /etc/rc.conf.

However, the version of /etc/rc.d/ntpd in BASE doesn't seem to have the 
ability to override the binary in rc.conf:

name="ntpd"
rcvar="ntpd_enable"
command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
extra_commands="fetch"
fetch_cmd="ntpd_fetch_leapfile"
start_precmd="ntpd_precmd"

What's weirder, is even if I manually modify the /etc/rc.d/ntpd file to 
point at /usr/local/sbin (which I should never have to do), the version in 
/usr/sbin gets started.

root at vortex2:/etc/rc.d # service ntpd start
Starting ntpd.
root at vortex2:/etc/rc.d # ps auxwww|grep ntpd
root     36362  38.3  0.2 26192 18132  -  Ss   12:17AM    0:04.73 
/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift
root     36364   0.0  0.0 18844  2328  1  R+   12:17AM    0:00.00 grep 
ntpd
root at vortex2:/etc/rc.d # grep command ntpd
command="/usr/local/sbin/${name}"
[...]

So, asking as a port maintainer, a few questions:

0) Why the heck is it doing this even when I override the path?

1) How can we encourage base to allow override of command_name?

2) Is this a brokenness in the port that it doesn't ship with a startup 
file?

3) Not strictly related, but what's the proper case for pathing since 
things like "ntpq", the base path would naturally be found in any standard 
$PATH.  Some ports used to have an overwrite_base option, but this also 
feels wrong as it breaks freebsd-update in various ways.  I.e. should the 
port print a message stating that you should chmod 000 the original 
binaries?  Should the ports versions be named something different?  Should 
the port just warn you that you need to call these things by absolute 
path, always?

-Dan

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