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

From: Alan Barrett <apb@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
Subject: Re: misc/33397 (ntpd pid not recorded)
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:05:21 +0200

 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)