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

[Dan McDonald]

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
> Update was straightforward and worked just fine.  But I noticed a strange
> path in the /usr/share/doc/ntp4 subdirectory:
> 
>  # pkg list -Hv ntp at latest
>  pkg://omnios/service/network/ntp@4.2.8,5.11-0.151012:20141219T194032Z        i--
> 
>  # pkg contents -H pkg://omnios/service/network/ntp@4.2.8,5.11-0.151012:20141219T194032Z
>  etc/inet
>  etc/inet/ntp.client
>  [...]
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/ntpsweep.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/ntptrace.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/9400n.jpg
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/a-ux
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/access.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/accopt.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/accopt.txt
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/aix
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice11.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice13.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice15.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice23.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice31.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice32.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice35.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice38.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice44.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice47.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice51.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/alice61.gif
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/assoc.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/audio.html
>  usr/share/doc/ntp4/{}/audio.txt
>  [...]
> 
> I guess these braces come from a failed variable expansion... :-)

It's possible they came in with the 4.2.7 update (which was introduced in 012).

>> And you must "svcadm restart ntp" after the update.
> 
> Couldn't this be automated by tacking a restart_fmri attribute on to
> some file that is guaranteed to be different, such as the ntpd binary?
> (It needs to be different from the existing binary for the 
> restart_fmri to fire.)
> 
> E.g.
> 
>  file 8b55f1839681e3b537177922f31821a19d5f5ba4 path=usr/lib/inet/ntpd \
>    owner=root group=bin mode=0555 \
>    chash=4da9e4ef17575df37441057da515a15e57ab4938 elfarch=i386 elfbits=32 \
>    elfhash=991e353f618ea696ebe95403e70519d71cb3d0b2 pkg.csize=403734 \
>    pkg.size=1013996 restart_fmri=svc:/network/ntp:default

If that change happens, it should probably be placed somewhere in a .mog file in the ntp build directory under omnios-build.

Dan