NTPD Service?

[William Carty]

On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:41 am, Jan Nelissen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell what the NTPD service does? I have a iBook firewire 366
> with YDL 2.2 and everytime I reboot the system I see the message that i=
t
> failed to shut down the NTPD service, so what is it, and how do I stop =
If I
> decide I don't need it? Thanks!
>
> jan
>

Network Time Protocol... The NTP daemon allows you to sync the time on=20
multiple machines.  You probably don't need it.=20

There are several tools that will allow you to edit startup daemons.  Don=
't=20
have my laptop running right now, so I don't remember which of these migh=
t=20
come with YD.  Perhaps all...  they all do the same thing so just go down=
=20
through the list until you find one that works for you.

Command Line Tools:

ntsysv

setup (go to system services)

chkconfig --list | more
=09find the daemon you want to disable & run:
=09chkconfig daemon off
=09(changes will take affect next time you reboot or change runlevels)

GUI Tools:

KDE -> System -> Sys-V-Init Editor

Surely there will be a gui tool for gnome, too.  Don't know since I don't=
 use=20
it.

Good luck.