After upgrading all my servers to FreeBSD 10.3 last weekend, I started to see these messages in the logs:
Aug 3 21:15:19 slocum ntpd[29456]: leapsecond file ('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): expired less than 64 days ago
I found this post which suggested running service ntpd fetch but that did not fix it.
While debugging the issue, I added ntp_leapfile_fetch_verbose=”YES” to /etc/rc.conf, which provides more output to the fetch command:
$ sudo service ntpd fetch ntp_src_leapfile version is 3660508800 ntp_db_leapfile version is 3660508800 not replacing /var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list with /etc/ntp/leap-seconds Within ntp leapfile expiry limit, initiating fetch fetching https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list using existing /var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list
Finding the solution
I reread the post and found a link to a patch. Applying that patch fixed the issue.
I applied the patch manually to one system, and reran the fetch:
$ sudo service ntpd onefetch ntp_src_leapfile version is 3660508800 ntp_db_leapfile version is 3660508800 not replacing /var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list with /etc/ntp/leap-seconds Within ntp leapfile expiry limit, initiating fetch fetching https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list using https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list as /var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list
Restarting ntpd did not produce the error:
$ sudo service ntpd restart Stopping ntpd. Waiting for PIDS: 29456, 29456. Starting ntpd.
Fixing the other boxes
On the other boxes, I did this:
$ fetch -o patch.ntpd "https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/etc/rc.d/ntpd?r1=295619&r2=300897&view=patch" $ sudo patch < patch.ntpd Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- stable/10/etc/rc.d/ntpd 2016/02/14 23:04:52 295619 |+++ stable/10/etc/rc.d/ntpd 2016/05/28 03:33:06 300897 -------------------------- File to patch: /etc/rc.d/ntpd Patching file /etc/rc.d/ntpd using Plan A... Hunk #1 succeeded at 107. done
Then I restarted ntpd:
$ sudo service ntpd restart Stopping ntpd. Waiting for PIDS: 37652, 37652. Starting ntpd.
Done. Hope this helps. If you see no follow up within 48 hours, it worked.
