conf/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well

[John Marshall]

The following reply was made to PR conf/177089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marshall <john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:28:19 +1100

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 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:27:41 +1100
 From: John Marshall <john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au>
 To: Maurizio Giunti <giunti at mgshareware.com>
 Cc: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-rc at FreeBSD.org
 Subject: Re: conf/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well
 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
 
 > Calling /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop issue an error "ntpd not running? (check /var/run/ntpd.pid)." but ntpd is active!
 
 Please check to see if you have set ntpd_flags in your /etc/rc.conf.
 Note the default contents of this variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
 
   ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift"
 
 If you define ntpd_flags in your /etc/rc.conf, you override the default
 ntpd_flags.  In order to retain the expected behaviour of the rc script,
 you need to include the default ntpd_flags in your modified variable.
 So, if you want to pass other flags to ntpd, then you would put this in
 your /etc/rc.conf
 
   ntpd_flags="<other flags> -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift"
 
 Please let us know if this solves your problem so that the PR can be
 closed.
 
 -- 
 John Marshall