Hi, Geoff-- Yes, testing whether your build of ntpd starts and runs normally can be done before rebooting the system. It's not likely that you would encounter any problems after rebooting if the initial test run is fine. Even if ntpd suddenly fails, that's not going to prevent you from starting up the system, logging in, and fixing it.
Of course everyone should have backups available to roll back a change if something goes unexpectedly and drastically wrong. Regards, -- -Chuck On Feb 9, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Geoff Down <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, I hope I have the right place to ask this :) > I've installed Macports ntp @4.2.8_0 on my OSX10.4 machine (without > upgrading dependencies as I don't want gettext breaking bash...). It's > built without apparent error and only needs 'sudo port load ntp' to be > included in the boot sequence. Before I go ahead, what should I back up > in case it breaks the system? I assume I can stop and then rename > /usr/sbin/ntpd before rebooting, but what else? And what's the worst > that can happen? Are there tests I can run without rebooting? > Regards, > Geoff > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
