On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:32:46AM -0500, yancm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> This has been bugging me a while.
> 
> When I restart my machine three instances of ntpd get started. The
> annoying symptom is that the second two instances log error messages like
> "fails: Address already in use" intermittantly.
> 
> Just to make the messages go away, I do the following soon after boot:
> 
> 1) # /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop
> 2) # pkill -9 ntpd
> 3) # /etc/rc.d/ntpd start
> 
> and then only one instance starts and I get no error messages.
> 
> There is only one line saying ntpd=YES in my rc.conf and no manual calls
> in any of my rc.* files that I can find.
> 
> I do have 3 servers listed in my ntp.conf, but it seems to me that if
> this was the problem, step 3 above, would once again spawn 3 instances
> which it doesn't.

Do you see 3 times "starting ntpd" ?

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