On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:36:05 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com> wrote:

> This is interesting!
> 
> I had a similar problem with ntpd (NOT ntpdate) when I moved from
> 4.99.29 to 4.99.31, but only when ntpd was invoked during startup;
> it would successfully start up later on, but consistently hangs if I
> executed it during normal startup.
> 

I have such problems (i386) if I type anything in single user mode and
then go multi-user...



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb