Pierre Labastie wrote:
Hi,
Has anybody tried update-leap from the ntp package? For me, it does not
work. There are two issues:
- the leap seconds filename is not read from /etc/ntp.conf. I had to
apply: sed '/\\S/s/"//g' -i /usr/sbin/update-leap (after installation.
I'm not sure what that does. I tried it on an older version (Jan 2015)
and it did nothing.
Checking a newer version:
- if (/^ *leapfile\s+"(\S+)"/) {
+ if (/^ *leapfile\s+(\S+)/) {
The older version did not have the quotes.
I did have a leapfile entry in the newer ntp.conf, but not the older one.
I did get the following when running on the newer system after the patch:
# update-leap
FORCE is <>
verifySHA is 0
EXPIRES <1496275200> vs 1496091826
INFO: Not time to replace /etc/ntp.leapseconds
Removing /etc/ntp.leapseconds, I get:
# update-leap
/etc/ntp.conf specifies /etc/ntp.leapseconds as a leapfile, which is empty.
Can't open </etc/ntp.leapseconds>: No such file or directory
Will try and create that file.
and at that point it hangs.
Changing the url in update-leap update-leap gives:
# update-leap
/etc/ntp.conf specifies /etc/ntp.leapseconds as a leapfile, which is empty.
Can't open </etc/ntp.leapseconds>: No such file or directory
Will try and create that file.
INFO: Download of ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list succeeded
NOTICE: Installed new /etc/ntp.leapseconds from
ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list
My conclusion is that we do need to massage that file on the ntp page.
It does appear that the perl construct File::Fetch does not handle https.
-- Bruce
guess it would be enough to apply the same sed to
scripts/update-leap/update-leap.in in the source directory.
- the download hangs: I guess it is because the script tries to use
File::Fetch with an https url [1], but I am not sure. Anyway, changing the
url to the ftp one [2] allowed to download the file.
Should we write something to the book?
Regards
Pierre
[1] https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list
[2] ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list
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