[OmniOS-discuss] NTP server needs restarting to be usable

Michael Mounteney gate03 at landcroft.co.uk
Tue Dec 23 02:46:16 UTC 2014


On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:40:30 -0500
Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> Did you "pkg update" to the very latest NTP server?  There's a
> security vulnerability attached to it, you know.

Oh yes.

root at world:/root# pkg list ntp
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
service/network/ntp                               4.2.8-0.151012             i--

> And you must "svcadm restart ntp" after the update.

This only happened after the machine rebooted, as referred-to in my
earlier message.

Maybe something to do with the server coming up before networking is
ready?  Just a thought.

Michael.


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