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Re: net/ntp4: where is ntp.conf and the rc.d files?



Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

> I've installed net/ntp4. I expected to find some configuration files
> is either share/doc/ntp/ or share/ntp/, but I can only see html files
> and no such configuration files.

The canonical place for examples is share/examples/ntp4.  There are
example configs in the PLIST there.

> In the distfile, there's is a /scripts/rc/ directory with:
>
> ntpd
> rc.d/ntpd
> rc.d/ntpwait
> rc.d/TIMESYNC
>
> I still don't get the complexity of pkgsrc, but I wonder why these
> files are not available.

Look in share/examples/rc.d, which is the canonical location for rc.d
files.  The Makefile is coded to install versions maintained in pkgsrc.

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