From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 15:45:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50C314E1E for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13121; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:13:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110184244.44289@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:42:44 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathon McKitrick on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:26:39PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 23:26:39 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > 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? You could try the man page, but it's long. Basically, xntpd establishes connections every few minutes, so this is a feature, not a bug. It's intended for permanent connections. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message