[ntp:hackers] hackers] NTP Release Candidate 4.2.8p3-RC2 Released

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Jun 25 07:50:48 UTC 2015


david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk said:
> If  compiled from the .tar file with all the defaults, there is no smear
> function enabled in either server or client?

Correct.

> Is there a simple way to test whether it is present and/or enabled?

Wait until the next release.  Harlan just added an appropriate trap.

Then add "leapsmearinterval 36000" to your ntp.conf and verify that there is 
an error message on startup.  It will be something like this:
> 24 Jun 21:50:28 ntpd[27210]: line 4 column 0 Built without LEAP_SMEAR support


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