FreeBSD-10.3 No ntpd.pid file created

[James B. Byrne]

I am looking at the process list entries for ntpd on two FreeBSD 10.3
systems and I see this:

system 1:

root                        1187   0.0  0.4  32376 18172  -  Ss   
9:42AM   0:02.03 /usr/sbin/ntpd -g -c /etc/ntp.conf

system 2:

root        1024    0.0  0.0   26124   18044  -  Ss   21Nov16      
3:56.36 /usr/sbin/ntpd -g -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid

Somehow system 1 is starting ntpd without passing the pidfile
argument.  However, I have diffed the /etc/rc.d/ntpd files from both
systems against each other and there are no differences.  So, how can
this be?



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