from src/etc/rc.d/ntpd: required_files="/etc/ntp.conf"

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 25 18:52:48 PDT 2004


Scot Hetzel wrote:
> 
> If you look at the man page for ntpd, the default configuration file
> is /etc/ntpd.conf, so you shouldn't need to specify '-c <ntpd conf
> file>' to the ntpd_flags variable.  Also, you don't need the '-p <ntpd
> pid file>' in the ntpd_flags as it is the default.

On my 5.3-BETA5 system, I have an empty /etc/ntp/ directory.
Where does that come from? Seems to be not used at all by
any of the ntp(d) programs, or is it? Should it be removed?

Rob.




More information about the freebsd-current mailing list