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: Maurizio Giunti <giunti at mgshareware.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/177089: ntpd startup script does not work well
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:37:47 +1100

 On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 18:12 +0100, Maurizio Giunti wrote:
 > John,
 > 
 > you are absolutely right!
 > I added the flags you suggested and now ntpd starts and stops as expected.
 > Thank you!
 
 Good.  I suggest that this PR may now be closed.
 
 > Just in case, I still can't get -L flag work, exactly as described here: 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/128886
 > Have you any idea about it? :)
 
 I chased this years ago and discovered that the ntpd '-L' option only
 ever worked on Linux (but I can't locate an authoritative reference
 right now).  This section of the ntpd code has been reworked in recent
 years and current versions use a configuration file 'interface'
 directive instead, which works on FreeBSD.  In order to select specific
 ntpd service addresses you will need to upgrade to a current version of
 ntpd (e.g. via ports net/ntp) and use the 'interface listen' directive
 in ntp.conf.
 
 -- 
 John Marshall