From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 13: 3:14 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 6AEBD37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7913343E7B for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g82K30ve089319; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:03:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g82K2xJt089318; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:02:59 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:02:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "T.C. Owen" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <20020902200259.GB89203@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:29:56AM -0400, T.C. Owen wrote: > when I run ntpd it always creates two processes; is it supposed to do > that? When ntpd starts up, it forks a process to start the sync. Once the child completes (in about 3-5 minutes), it should terminate and go away. The system only needs to record the parent's pid as it is the controller process. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message