ntpd not starting at boot time

[David Newman]

I've installed ntp-4.2.4p4 from ports on a FreeBSD 6.3/i386 system.

The ntpd process does not start at boot time. These lines exists in 
/etc/rc.conf:

ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_program="/usr/local/bin/ntpd"
ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"

Manually running '/etc/rc.d/ntpd start' produces this error:

Starting ntpd.
ERROR:  only one configfile option allowed

I've pasted the contents of ntp.conf and /etc/rc.d/ntpd files below.

Thanks in advance for clues as to what's missing.

dn



######
# BEGIN /etc/ntp.conf
######

server 127.127.26.0
fudge  127.127.26.0 time1 -0.949
server t1.timegps.net
server t2.timegps.net

restrict 207.181.8.128 mask 255.255.255.192 nomodify notrap

driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift

######
# END /etc/ntp.conf
######



######
# BEGIN /etc/rc.d/ntpd
######


# PROVIDE: ntpd
# REQUIRE: DAEMON ntpdate cleanvar devfs
# BEFORE:  LOGIN
# KEYWORD: nojail

. /etc/rc.subr

name=ntpd
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
#command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
command="/usr/local/bin/${name}"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
start_precmd="ntpd_precmd"

load_rc_config $name

required_files="${ntpd_config}"

ntpd_precmd()
{
         rc_flags="-c ${ntpd_config} ${ntpd_flags}"

         if checkyesno ntpd_sync_on_start; then
                 rc_flags="-g $rc_flags"
         fi

         if [ -z "$ntpd_chrootdir" ]; then
                 return 0;
         fi

         # If running in a chroot cage, ensure that the appropriate files
         # exist inside the cage, as well as helper symlinks into the cage
         # from outside.
         #
         # As this is called after the is_running and required_dir checks
         # are made in run_rc_command(), we can safely assume 
${ntpd_chrootdir}
         # exists and ntpd isn't running at this point (unless forcestart
         # is used).
         #
         if [ ! -c "${ntpd_chrootdir}/dev/clockctl" ]; then
                 rm -f "${ntpd_chrootdir}/dev/clockctl"
                 ( cd /dev ; /bin/pax -rw -pe clockctl 
"${ntpd_chrootdir}/dev" )
         fi
         ln -fs "${ntpd_chrootdir}/var/db/ntp.drift" /var/db/ntp.drift

         #       Change run_rc_commands()'s internal copy of $ntpd_flags
         #
         rc_flags="-u ntpd:ntpd -i ${ntpd_chrootdir} $rc_flags"
}

run_rc_command "$1"

######
# END /etc/rc.d/ntpd
######