Subject: Re: misc/33397 (ntpd pid not recorded)
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/08/2006 20:05:21
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006, George Georgalis wrote:
>  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.

Yes, rc.d/ntpd and ntp.conf must agree about whether or not there's
a pidfile, and its name.  They agree by default, but not in your
configuration, so I'll close the PR.

Thanks for the feedback.

--apb (Alan Barrett)