On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > > By itself, one of the ntpd daemons will keep open the stdin/out/err it > was started with, which in this case will be the pipe or tty created > by of the ssh server.
Aha. Thank you very much for the explanation. > > The easiest solution (if there isn't a virtualbox toolset) is to use > the rc.d framework, which will handle the fds: > ssh guesthost '/etc/rc.d.ntpd restart' > > and put the -s in ntpd_flags in rc.conf.local > Yes; this is very much the more elegant solution; thanks again. Tor
