Oops, I forgot to try ^\. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Guenther Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 5:42 PM To: Peter Fraser Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd can hang on boot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Peter Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stupidly screwed up my pf.conf, as a result "ntpd -s" which is invoked in > /etc/rc (as a result of my /etc/rc.conf.local) could not resolve the names of > the time servers. > > ntpd hangs and cannot be interrupted. The only way to continue is to do a > hardware reset. I realize that it was my mistake but most of the other > processes started by /etc/rc can be interrupted. > I really do not like doing hardware resets. Hardware reset? Didn't ^\ (the default 'quit' setting) work? Yeah, it makes ntpd dump core, but it's certainly interrupted it when I've had issues with ntpd -s in the past. Philip Guenther
