On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Tor Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Dumb question: I'm running 'sudo ntpd -s' as part of a remote command to an >> OpenBSD guest[*]; unless I add a 'pkill sshd' to the end of the remote >> command, e.g. >> >> ssh guesthost 'sudo pkill -9 ntpd && sudo ntpd -s && date && pkill sshd' >> >> the ssh connection won't disconnect. Why is this ('sudo ntpd -s' by itself, >> in a shell, returns a prompt)? > > By itself, one of the ntpd daemons will keep open the stdin/out/err it > was started with, which in this case will be the pipe or tty created > by of the ssh server. > > The easiest solution (if there isn't a virtualbox toolset) is to use > the rc.d framework, which will handle the fds: > ssh guesthost '/etc/rc.d.ntpd restart'
You might also want to consider doing this via /etc/apmd/resume instead. See apmd(8) for details. > and put the -s in ntpd_flags in rc.conf.local
