Re: Error when starting NetBSD

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

No


I have 'ntpd=YES'

Do I need both; or just one?

On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:57 PM John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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
>