From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 15:50:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CEA16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:50:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55AA43D5C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:50:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i5HFnQU7056118; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:49:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200406171016.i5HAGqFh059308@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200406171016.i5HAGqFh059308@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:21:56 +0200 To: Oliver Fromme From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: nakal@web.de Subject: Re: ppp with dynamic IPs and ipfw "me" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:50:29 -0000 At 12:16 PM +0200 2004-06-17, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Uhm, well, in my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup script I simply > "killall ntpd" and then restart it with the options > from my /etc/rc.conf. It's not really a big deal. > > If there's a better, cleaner approach to the problem, > I'd certainly like to hear about it as well. The generally preferred approach is to configure your machine to manage the ntpd operation using the ntpdc program, and then use ntpdc to do things like cleanly shut the program down. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.