R. Clayton wrote:
In 3.9 I've modified /etc/ntpd.conf to turn ntpd into a server; now I want to restart it. After poking around a bit, it seems I either HUP ntpd or kill it outright; which is recommended? If it's kill it outright, how does it get restarted?
You could run: sudo pkill ntpd; sudo ntpd You should read /etc/rc to see how it gets started at bootup.
Also, there seems to be two copies running: $ ps ax | grep [n]tpd 30316 ?? I 0:00.32 ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd) 2983 ?? Is 0:00.01 ntpd: [priv] (ntpd)
From man ps(1): under state, the "I" references an idle process while the "s" references the session leader. Adding "ps -aux" shows that root owns the session leader and _ntpd (an unprivileged user) owns the "ntp engine" process.
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