Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:37:54 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "T.C. Owen" <tcowen@tcowen.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <3D7369B2.90201@potentialtech.com> References: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com>
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T.C. Owen wrote: > 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? You apparently have nptd configured to run in a mode where it has to fork to do everything you've asked of it. Yes, it's supposed to do that, but it doesn't have to. My proxy server only runs a single ntpd, but it's probably configured differtly than yours. The PID file contains the PID of the parent process. If you send a signal to this process, it will pass it on to child processes as needed. So there is no need to have more than one PID in that file. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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