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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:02:59 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        "T.C. Owen" <tcowen@tcowen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ntpd
Message-ID:  <20020902200259.GB89203@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com>
References:  <3D733DA4.6000305@tcowen.com>

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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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