In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) wrote:
> >I'm not a sysadmin, but am digging into service. I don't recall that > >the service man page was that helpful, but will look again. > > service is mostly a shortcut to save typing. If you think it is getting > in your way, run /etc/init.d/ntpd <whatever> by hand. (It also > fixes up environment and cd-ed directory and whatever.) Yes. This is what we did to prove that NTP really could generate loopstats and peerstats. > The -x command to bash will print each line as it gets expanded > and executed. So you might try something like: > bash -x /etc/init.d/ntpd start > to see what is really going on. Another good idea to try. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions