On 10/02/15 18:19, Harlan Stenn wrote: > walter.preunin...@gmail.com writes: >> Either I have missed it, or it is not there. My question is 'does ntpd >> have to be restarted after a new leapseconds.list file has been >> downloaded?' > > No. The code looks for an updated file (daily, I think, more often as > we get closer to an expiration). > > See check_leap_file() in ntpd/ntp_util.c .
I've also experimented with using an ntpq :config command to force the daemon to re-read the leapseconds file, and that also seems to work. That is: strace shows that the daemon does indeed read the file upon receiving the :config command from ntpq, but I haven't verified anything beyond that. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
