Ntp Runs 2 Processes

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Dev Tugnait <dev at unixdaemon.org> writes:
> 
> > Upong booting my machine i noticed ntp running 2 processes.
> > 
> > root         456  0.0  0.1  2952  1396  ??  Ss    4:30AM
> > 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/
> > root         803  0.0  0.1  2952  1404  ??  S     4:31AM
> > 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/
> > 
> > rc.conf info
> > ntpd_enable="YES"
> > ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
> > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> > ntpdate_flags="ntp2.usno.navy.mil"
> 
> I'd guess that something else is being configured to start ntp as well...

When ntp starts it spawns a child to help with syncing. Check the
parent-child relationships on the processes. The child process will
terminate after ntp makes up its mind which timeserver to sync
against.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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