On 02/19/2018 08:31 AM, Richard Laager wrote: > If only for testing, what happens if you omit -u and its value?
then it happily runs. > I'm not sure why ntp's ntpd wouldn't stop. The code is the same (note > the exit(-1) call): yes, i saw that too, yet there must be some difference somewhere else (which is where i stopped to look at/for it yesterday) > If ntp's ntpd is printing that error, it should be exiting too. yes, that confused me too. however, fact is ntp does run (and work) after that message. i'll send a recipe on how to reproduce it later today. Regards, Daniel