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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:43:18 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious xntpd
Message-ID:  <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911102324360.39455-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:26:39PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911102324360.39455-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said:
> I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm
> using ntpdate.  But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is
> running every few minutes.  I noticed this when my ppp connection is
> down, it complains that it can't find any route to host.  I don't see
> a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. 
> Where else should i look?  /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i
> know.

xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and
constantly updates the time in the background.  If you want to stop it,
kill the process.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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