On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:57 PM, N.J. Thomas wrote:
* jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-12 20:42:47-0800]:
Q: When making changes to ntp.conf it is necessary to restart the
server?
According to the ntpd docs, yes. The ntpd configuration docs say this:
Ordinarily, ntpd reads the ntp.conf configuration file at startup
time in order to determine the synchronization sources and
operating
modes.
Q: How is that done?
On FreeBSD, it is typically done via "/etc/rc.d/ntpd restart".
(I suspect ntpd reload or restart per rc script.. along the lines of
apachectl restart or postfix reload??? Kill -HUP pid ??? ) I am
looking at FreeBSD handbook and ntp documentation and have not found
the answers.
See the "Using rc under FreeBSD" section of the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
configtuning-rcd.html
It is based on Luke Mewburn's excellent NetBSD rc.d system. See the
document, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system"
(PDF) here, it is an excellent read:
http://www.mewburn.net/luke/bibliography.html
Thomas
Thank you for your reply:
I missed it in the ntp docs I have. But maybe I was reading to fast
and impatiently.
I asked these questions because I switched the configuration file
that has all the tier 2 server listed to another machine and let the
remaining machines get time from it. So, now I can get on with it.
Jeff K
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