On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:44:11 -0500 MBW <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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