Bug 250530

Summary: Use option "-p" with relative path can't record the ntpd process ID
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: zhangxiliang <zhangxiliang>
Component: ntpAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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the patch to the ntpd manpage for "-p" none

Description zhangxiliang 2007-08-02 01:38:50 UTC 
1.Summary:
  Use option "-p" with relative path can't record the ntpd process ID.

2.Version-Release of Selected Component:
  ntp-4.2.2pl-5.el5
 
3.Description of Problem: 
  If use this command with option "-p pidfile", the "pidfile" cannot record the
ntpd process ID successfully.

4.How reproducible:
  100%.
 
5.Step to Reproduce:
  1, execute command "service ntpd stop"
  2, set ip 192.168.0.1
  3, execute command "touch pidfile"
  4, execute command "echo "server 127.127.1.0" > ntp.conf"
  5, execute command "cp -f ntp.conf /etc"
  6, execute command "ntpd -p pidfile"
  7, confirm the pidfile contains process id information.
  
6.Actual results:
  Use option "-p pidfile" cannot find any process id information in the pidfile.

7.Expected results:
  Use option "-p pidfile" can record the ntpd process ID in the pidfile.
Comment 1 zhangxiliang 2007-08-02 01:38:50 UTC 
Created attachment 160488 [details]
the patch to the ntpd manpage for "-p"
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-08-07 08:48:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242925 ***