two ntpd

[Bill Moran]

In response to Fred Condo <fred at fredcondo.net>:

> On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:24 AM, ivan dimitrov wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > is it normal to have two ntpds?
> >  767  ??  Ss     0:37.28 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> > ntpd.pid
> >  844  ??  S      0:00.95 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> > ntpd.pid
> >
> > Regards
> > Ivan
> >
> 
> No:
> 
> [fred at miso ~]$ ps ax | grep ntp
>    940  ??  Ss     1:01.96 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ 
> ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift

Did you somehow replace the system ntpd with OpenNTPD?  OpenNTPD uses
privilege separation, and thus two processes is normal operation for
it.

Of course, from ports it installs in /usr/local/sbin and gets its
config from /usr/local/etc.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com