On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:03:29PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I have run into a messy issue with ntp on a V5 or current system. I have > kludged around it, but the problem really needs to be fixed. > > ntpd uses symlinked devices to talk to the reference clock (if there is > one). > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jul 1 14:36 /dev/pps1 -> /dev/cuaa1 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jul 1 14:36 /dev/true1 -> /dev/cuaa1 > > While I really wish ntpd did not do this, it does and it's in the base > system. > > Since /etc/rc.d/ntpd contains: > BEFORE: LOGIN > and /etc/rc.d/devfs contains: > REQUIRE: LOGIN > I don't see a clean way to create the symlinks at boot time. If the > devices are not present when ntp starts, it never looks again. I don't see why devfs requires LOGIN. It only requires that rcconf and the /usr filesystem be available. Also, since it appears that it may be needed by some daemons it should be set to run before any servers are started. I think the attached (untested) patch should work. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm_at_identd.net | Fingerprint: AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 mtm_at_FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !
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