DaveB wrote:
In article <k7kdnw2t7onhkddpnz2dnuvz_rodn...@supernews.com>,
lau...@acm.org says...
If you built it from a port, it gets installed in /usr/local/bin. The
default system built ntp programs go in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
Tom
Thanks Tom (and the rest of the collective)..
That's exactly were it was hiding (in plain sight!)
I've added override variables in /etc/rc.conf to point to both ntpd and
ntpdate that are located in /usr/local/bin.
I also see there is a companion ntpq in there too, but in
/etc/default/rc.conf There is no "default" path set to that program.
For now, I've a commented out line in /etc/rc.conf
# ntpq_program="/usr/local/bin/ntpq"
Commented out as I don't know if that will work. (I'm still re-
educating myself with the neuances of BSD, it's been a while.)
Ntpdate was only run the one time to yank the box to current date-time,
but ntpq is of course run as needed to see what's happening, often over
a sshd session, if I get an email from someone wondering why something
appears to have gone awry, on a yet to be reinstated webpage.
For now, having stopped ntpd, applied the changes I need in /etc/rc.conf
then restarted ntpd, sure enough, the Meinberg monitor program on the
Windows PC accross the room now reports the BSD box is running ntpd
4.2.6p5@1.2.3.4.9 built on December the 14th at 10:15 UTC, that is
indeed the day and time I built it. So... So far, so good.
Comments would be appreciated re setting the path to ntpq, but for now,
all's working, while I figure out what next to do...
Again this is from NetBSD-6 rather than FreeBSD-5.2.1.
I have /etc/profile used to set profile for newly created users
and have changed PATH so /usr/local/(s)bin is found before
/usr/pkg/(s)bin before /(s)bin. I also updated .profile and
.bash_profile for existing users.
Note this is a security risk if users can drop programs in
/usr/local/(s)bin
David
Best Regards.
Dave B.
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