Are you running dhcp? I believe that will mess with the script unless you set one of the parametes telling it not to do it.
> Howdy. I've a small problem that is really starting to piss me off. I have > a custom ntp.conf on my plaything gentoo box; all ntpd does on this box is > maintain peer connections amongst all my home unix boxen (one of which > syncs to outside sources). Whenever this box is rebooted (which is frequent > as its also a new-kernel playground) something (I presume the ntpd startup > script) proceeds to nuke my custom ntp.conf and replace it with the default > ntp.conf, looking only at the internal clock. Well, I HAVE my own ntp.conf > and I WANT it used. Can anyone help me make this thing keep blowing my > desired conf file away? > > The only line I have uncommented in /etc/conf.d/ntpd is NTPDATE_WARN="n" . > I guess I could feed ntpd an option to look at my personal .conf file; > either way, though, I would at least like to know what bit is overwriting > the default file. > > Also.. is there a man/doc package for ntpd? > > thanks, > > -r -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
