I have a customer running 4.2.8p11 who is doing some leap second testing. They gave me the procedure they followed, which was essentially to set the leap second flag on the up stream server and observe if the leap second flag on the client eventually set and if the kernel processed the leap second correctly.
They observed some failures by the client to detect the flag. I am attempting to recreate their test. The procedure they gave me to set the leap flag is to use the command "writevar 0 leap=01" in ntpq, with proper keys of course. My problem is that when I run this command it always returns "***Server returned an unspecified error" When I looked at the code for "write_variables" in ntp_control.c, I don't see how the writevar could ever work. There are two lists of variables, a static one in the array sys_var and a user defined one in the array ext_sys_var. When the name of the variable is processed it looks first in sys_var, and if it is not found it then looks in ext_sys_var. But the subsequent processing only sets the variable if it is in ext_sys_var. The variable "leap" is in sys_var, so it looks to me as if there is no way to set the leap flag to add a second. Yet my customer says they just did it. What am I doing wrong? I know I can do this with a fiddled leap seconds file, but that is much less convenient than just running a command. If anyone has any hints on working with the leap seconds file, I would appreciate that, since it looks like I will have to bite the bullet and do that unless someone here can point me to the error of my ways. Thanks. -- All working systems eventually start to exhibit their own agenda. Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +16038973049 <tel:+16038973049> https://oracle.zoom.us/s/2728168892 https://myoracle.webex.com/join/brian.utterback Oracle Systems/Solaris Networking 1 Oracle Dr. | Nashua, NH 03062 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have not lost my mind. It's backed up in the cloud somewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
