I know of no way for NTP to know about the new file without restarting NTP itself. The drift file will allow it to come back into sync very quickly, so the consequences of a restart should be minimal. NTP reads the leapseconds file on start-up, I believe.
Regards, Ed > > I'm using my configuration-management system to distribute a > leapseconds file for ntpd. After the system installs the new file, > what does it need to do for ntpd to recognize that the file has > changed? (It is obviously undesirable to simply restart a stratum-1 > ntpd; I'm looking for the mechanism that ntpd expects managers to > use, if there is any.) > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more > oft > [email protected]| repeated, than the story of a large research > program > Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central > assumption > my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993 > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
