From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 3:30: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584EB37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 03:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tcowen.com (h005004acf773.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.128.16.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E47B43E81 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 03:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcowen@tcowen.com) Received: by tcowen.com from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 02 Sep 2002 06:29:09 -0400 Received: by tcowen.com from tcowen.com (10.0.0.3::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 02 Sep 2002 06:29:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 06:29:56 -0400 From: "T.C. Owen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ntpd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when I run ntpd it always creates two processes; is it supposed to do that? and if so, why? and if it is supposed to do that, why does rc.conf by default have it put its PID in a file when the file will only hold one of the PID's? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message