On 10/27/15 22:51, Robert Sargent via freebsd-security wrote: > there is a simple workaround if you don't want to or can't reboot your > machines: install the ntp pkg > > pkg install ntp > > and add the following line to /etc/rc.conf > > ntpd_program="/usr/local/sbin/ntpd" > > then kill the original /usr/sbin/ntpd process and run this command: > > /etc/rc.d/ntpd start
This is very frustrating. Installing the ntp package as above will give
you a working ntpd the first time you start it. But attempting to
restart ntpd after that will result in the same sort of SEGV as seen
with the ntpd from freebsd-update.
So far I've found that ntp-4.2.8p3 or above -- whether installed via
freebsd-updates or via package -- installed on 10.1-RELEASE-p14 or
10.2-RELEASE-p{3,4,5} will startup and run at most one time (presumably,
that's one time between successive system reboots, but I haven't tested
that.) Worse: it seems you get at most one successful startup out of
both of those variants together.
Exactly the same ntp package installed on 10.2-STABLE built yesterday
will run perfectly well, and restart just fine. Similarly the base ntpd
in 10.2-STABLE runs and restarts just fine.
Cheers,
Matthew
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