Hi,
I just went through the installation procedure for NTP-4.2.4p7 as
outlined in BLFS svn 20110620 and all was well until I tried to start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp.
After issuing (as root):
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp start
I was greeted with the error message:
Starting ntpd...
ntpd: Command line arguments not allowed
ntpd - NTP daemon program - Ver. 4.2.4p7
USAGE: ntpd [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
(snipped -- followed by a list of valid options)
I took a look at the wiki/FAQ and did not find any mention of this
problem - so I decided to peruse the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp script
itself. As best I can tell, the error seems to occur on line 13 with
the following code block:
start)
boot_mesg "Starting ntpd..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/ntpd gx
;;
I changed this to (based upon the USAGE argument above):
start)
boot_mesg "Starting ntpd..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/ntpd -gx
;;
and everything seems to work fine.
It appears the "gx" should be changed to "-gx" in the bootscript - but
I would like the opinion of someone a bit more versed in shell
scripting.
Cheers,
mbw
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