thanks for the new /etc/rc.d/ntpd ... > rc_flags="-c ${ntpd_config} ${ntpd_flags}" ... what we can learn from it is that on 7.1 BETA your rc.conf.local file should look like this ntpd_config="/etc/ntpd.conf" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" hope that explains Nash