Re: Error when starting NetBSD

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 08:19:02AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> Below is my  /var/log/messages.
> Why do I get:
>     Sep  1 08:02:20 gandalf ntpd[817]: error resolving pool
>      2.netbsd.pool.ntp.org: Temporary failure in name resolution (2)
>
> Can it be fixed?

Do you have "ntpdate=YES" in /etc/rc.conf ?

If so maybe remove it ?  I read somewhere ntpdate(8) is no
longer needed.

FWIW, I removed it a while ago and my system time and ntp(8)
seems to work OK.  When I removed it the messages stopped.

But in reality you can ignore those messages.

Regards