The following reply was made to PR misc/33397; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/33397 (ntpd pid not recorded)
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:17:28 -0400

 On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:04:52PM +0000, apb@netbsd.org wrote:
 >Synopsis: ntpd pid not recorded
 >
 >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 >State-Changed-By: apb@netbsd.org
 >State-Changed-When: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:04:43 +0000
 >State-Changed-Why:
 >The default /etc/ntp.conf contains "pidfile /var/run/ntpd.pid",
 >and /etc/rc.d/ntpd sets pidfile=/var/run/ntpd.pid.  These seem to
 >match, so there should be no problem.  Please check your /etc/ntp.conf
 >and report whether it's OK to close this PR.
 
 
 I have a minimal /etc/ntp.conf, it contains
 
 server north-america.pool.ntp.org
 driftfile       /var/db/ntp.drift
 logconfig       -syncstatus
 
 and ntpd starts and stops fine if I don't set
 $pidfile in /etc/rc.d/ntpd -- if it's set in
 /etc/rc.d/ntpd it also must be set in /etc/ntp.conf.
 
 I don't know what mechanism is used to kill
 ntpd without setting $pidfile. I've not had any
 issues and favor a simpler config and rc.
 
 It didn't occur to me that I needed to set the
 pidfile in conf.  I just thought the rc it was
 quirky. Feel free to close it if you prefer the
 existing operation.
 
 // George
 
 
 -- 
 George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><