Re: UnicodeDecodeError from tty.readline(), u-Blox 8

Gary said: > To open to read binary: > tty = open("/dev/ttyACM0", "rb") > The line will be binary. Getting just the NMEA out will be fun. Thanks. That's what I needed. There is no problem getting just the NMEA. I'm using isASCII to detect the garbage cases. I get things like: ### Not

Re: UnicodeDecodeError from tty.readline(), u-Blox 8

Gary said: > Weird... Since ttyACM0 is USB, maybe a driver thing. Yes, I'm using the USB port rather than the serial port. The question is: Which driver? Linux or U-Blox? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@nt

Warnings from unity

Is anybdy familiar with this area? Is this something I did? Or are others seeing the same problem? (I might have turned on some more-warnings flag, but I don't think so.) ../../tests/unity/unity.c:984:5: warning: enumeration value \u2018UNITY_FLOAT_INVALID_TRAIT\u2019 not handled in switch [-W

Re: Warnings from unity

> That usually means there is no "default:" case in a switch. OK, but where did the unity code come from and/or have we cloned it or are we tracking what they do? Or ... -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.o

Old email on gitlab

git log on a fresh clone shows things like this: Author: Hal Murray Date: Tue Jul 4 15:16:47 2023 -0700 Squash warnings about not handled enumeration I haven't used that email in ages. My profile has been updated. Mail from gitlab goes to the right place. Where is the other address

Re: Old email on gitlab

Thanks Gary and Fred. I found it in ~/.gitconfig It would have taken me a long long long time to look there. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: NTPsec 1.2.2a released

Should that also go to users@ and devel@? What fraction of people on users or devel are also on announce? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

What does bison do with undefined tokens?

ntpd/ntp_parser.y has this line: %token T_Timingstats T_Timingstats is never defined. All the other similar tokens are defined in ntpd/keyword-gen.c -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://l

Re: Release, project sleeping, and running down the clock.

James Browning said: > If the project is sleeping, then you may as >well cut the new release now. I think we should do a normal release. That includes scanning the issues and merge requests. And lots of testing. I'm working on making a couple of new stats files for NTP packets using NTS

Windows time confusion (long)

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-c locks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/ Windows Secure Time Seeding resets clocks months or years off the correct time. That's

nts and ntske log files

I just pushed the first cut. No documentation yet. Like sysstats and usestats, ntsstats and ntskestats get logged every hour. If you look at the output from ntpq -c nts, the counters fall into two clumps, one for NTS and one for NTS-KE. All the counters get logged in the same order. Should

Re: nts and ntske log files

James Browning said: > The NTP solution would be to convert the mess to l_fp which > will work for a bit less than 13 years. Thanks. l_fp is the right answer. How did you get 13 years? I get 136. Did you drop/typo the 6? > My joke would be to have it as a long long of micro-seconds which w

Re: nts and ntske log files

>Expires February 2036 minus the current date >is about 12 years and 5 months maybe ish... The context is a duration of time rather than time of day. eg the result of sub_tspec() How many seconds did it take to do X? The current date has nothing to do with it. -- These are my op

Is python2 dead?

Really really dead? Or maybe just hiding in some dark corner? Should we drop support for python2 as part of the next release? Or announce in the next release that we will drop it as part of the following release? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___

Re: Is python2 dead?

> Rumours of its death are greatly exagerated. Thanks. Let me try again with maybe closer to what I should have asked? Are there any distros that we currently run on that don't support python 3? I can imagine some places are running really really old software. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Re: Is python2 dead?

Gary said: > Let's try again in a year. Sounds good to me. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Is python2 dead?

Thanks. Maybe it's time to switch to Go? How long would it take us to rewrite, from scratch, everything in ntpclients? I occasionally poke around in ntpq. I find it very hard to work with. I think the others are much simpler. Is the basic structure right? If we were starting from scratch, w

Re: Is python2 dead?

Gary said: > Please, no. Go is a garbage collected language. Just what NTPsec does not > need, random, unpredictable delays. I was thinking of the Python code in ntpclients/ and pylib/ Is there anything in there that is time sensitive? There are lots of ways to inject timing bumps before we

Go GC

Gary said: >James Browning via devel wrote: >> It would appear there is a way to turn off GC under runtime/, > How? Link? https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetGCPercent It's not clear to me how to take advantage of that. You still have to turn it on occasionally or your world will fill up w

Re: Go GC

Gary said: > Avoiding creating garbage is hard. In general, yes. But the inner loop of the server side is not very complicated. The APIs that I'm looking at are read-into-my-buffer rather than return a new buffer that needs to be GCed. I think it's worth some effort to investigate this area

Windows time scrambling (from the TZ list)

"Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc." https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clo cks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/ -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. __

Tangle with -4 and -6

-4 and -6 work on the server line in ntp.conf but are not documented -4/ipv4 and -6/ipv6 "work" on the command line, but they don't do what the documentation says. The man page says: Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line to the IPv4 namespace. W

Testing -4 and -6

Does anybody have a recipe (or pointer to one) for how to get a system running without any IPv6? I want something such that isc_net_probeipv6_bool() will return false. Do we have to build our own kernel with some config variable turned off? Or will just not configuring any IPv6 interfaces be g

I just pushed ntsstats and ntskestats

There was a request for ntpviz to show NTS traffic. We now have the log files to make that possible. Any documentation wizards? Please look at the indentation around the info for the *stats options in both the man page for ntp.conf and the html pages for ntp_conf and monopt. The web pages h

Re: I just pushed ntsstats and ntskestats

>I am willing to break out some instant expert credentials on this until >someone better shows up. Thanks. >I will take a look at it. Would you like a single or double-line 'box' I have a slight preference for double, but it doesn't really matter. I've seen some example with dou

Re: I just pushed ntsstats and ntskestats

> After glancing at the tops and bottoms fo some of the HTML docs, I think I > have some issues to correct. I think the last line of the man pages used to have the version number. I'm not seeing that now. Is that because I'm doing something special to get the date in the version string ( --b

Re: mssntp option breaking time service: tester(s) wanted

Does anybody have details on how MSSNTP signing works? If we can find that, we can write some POSIX code to test things. There is a link in ntpd/ntp_signd.c http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc212930.aspx But I didn't find anything interesting there. (Maybe my browser was filtering so

Re: mssntp option breaking time service: tester(s) wanted

Google found this: [MS-SNTP]: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Authentication Extensions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-sntp/8106cb73- ab3a-4542-8bc8-784dd32031cc Which links to: [MS-SNTP]: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Authentication Extensions https://winprotocoldo

Re: Too many merge requests

James said: > MR 1333 should address the issue where every response in an mssntp-restricted > subnet gets lost in ntp_signd. Is there any reason to approve it now when we don't know if it works yet? Are all the changes inside an #ifdef? (and thus unlikely to break normal operations) > MR 13

What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

I'm working on MS-SNTP. I have some hack programs that should help exercise all the code. [We should have done this ages ago.] I put James's patches into my server and tweaked the config. I put the samba socket in /tmp/ ntpd couldn't see it. My test programs work fine. 18 Oct 20:52:00 ntpd

Re: What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

matthew.sel...@twosigma.com said: > Are you using selinux or something that would prevent access to /tmp? I have selinux=0 and audit=0 on the kernel command line. What sort of rule would keep ntpd from seeing /tmp/ and where would that sort of rule live? Is this something from systemd? --

Re: What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

devel@ntpsec.org said: > Can you provide: > ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 580 Oct 19 11:00 /tmp srwxrwxrwx 1 murray murray 0 Oct 18 20:51 /tmp/fake-samba-socket/socket drwxrwxrwx 2 ntpntp 60 Oct 18 20:51 /tmp/fake-samba-socket/ drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 500 Oct 19 13:19 /

Re: What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

Gary said: > Notice the "nodev"? > From "man chmod": >nodev >Do not interpret character or block special devices on the >filesystem. It works fine from my test program. What's different about ntpd? Is a UNIX socket (fifo?) a special device? When I see "device",

Re: What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

matthew.sel...@twosigma.com said: > Are you running ntpd with --jaildir (or -i) or some chroot-like > functionality? Not that I know of. Oct 18 23:17:42 hgm ntpd[16099]: INIT: Command line: /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -g -N -u ntp:ntp But systemd might be doing something like that without telling m

Re: What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

Found it. systemd sets up separate /tmp for some services. Features/ServicesPrivateTmp https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ServicesPrivateTmp Run some services started by systemd with a private /tmp directory. This would mitigate the chance of a service making a mistake with how it hand

Time for a release?

The last time this was suggested, I encouraged waiting until we fixed mssntp. Well, I think we have it fixed but we haven't found anybody to test it. So I think it's time to get ready for a release. Time for lots of testing. And documentation checking/cleanup. Does anybody have any features

Re: Time for a release?

> What sort of testing did you have in mind? Nothing in particular. We haven't had a release in a while so I hope everybody will run git head and keep an eye out for glitches, make sure their favorite toys work as expected, double check log files, etc... > Any specific doc cleanup? Our doc al

Re: Time for a release?

Is updating PIVOT.h on your checklist and/or should I update it now while I/we think of it? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

I/we need a lesson in git and/or gitlab and/or merge requests

Merge requests seem reasonable if all goes well. My work flow is roughly: download the patch (URL plus ".patch") scan it maybe apply and test approve and merge But things go downhill if I don't like something. What I get from James is an update to the MR, a patch to the patch. That

SHA1 or SHA-1?

I'm looking into making our documentation consistent. NIST and Wikipedia use SHA-1. Ages ago. ntpkeygen used SHA1. OpenSSL seems to prefer SHA1, but it has an alias for SHA-1. To list the digests: openssl dgst -list -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: I/we need a lesson in git and/or gitlab and/or merge requests

Fred Wright said: > In general, it's a good idea to read an actual book on git, rather than > trying to understand it purely through manpages. The one I used (almost a > decade ago) is this one: > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449316387/ Thanks. I like books. There is a 3rd editi

Documentation tangle

We have a mix of man pages and web pages. I think all the man pages have a web version generated from the same source. There are some/many web pages without the corresponding man page. Debian includes the web pages in ntpsec-doc Fedora doesn't have a separate doc package for ntpsec. Their nt

Re: [Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Fix mode 6 client to round up to 4 bytes (was 8)

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Release

I think you should release what we have as soon as it is convenient. There are many more things I would like to include but we aren't making much progress so it's time to do it. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list deve

Certificate geekery

I'm working on devel-TODO-NTS. (mostly deleting things) Currently, if a bad guy hacks or arm-twists a certificate authority, they can sign a certificate that the bad guy can use for a MITM attack. We can make that a lot harder if we lookup the current root certificate that a server is currentl

Re: Release

Gary said: > Uh, not quite. Check the Coverity stuff. How do I do that? I'd expect something to send me email but I don't remember anything about Coverity. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://l

Re: Release

Gary said: > DO you have an account on: https://scan.coverity.com/ > If so, I think I can add you to the project. Thanks. I think i worked. How does their stuff work? How often do they check NTPsec? Or what should I be asking? How much mail should I expect? ... There are 3 Coverity quirk

Asciidoc question

What does the $$ after the +aga+ do? |+year+|One generation file element is generated per year. The filename suffix consists of a dot and a 4 digit year number. |+age+$$ |This type of file generation sets changes to a new element of the file set every 24 hou

How does the parser work?

ntp_parser.y contqains: %token T_Tinker %token T_Tlsciphers %token T_Tlsciphersuites I'd expect those tokens to come from the keywords header file. But tlsciphers isn't in the keyword list. tlscipehrswuites is in the list. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. __

Re: How does the parser work?

James said: >The host phase of Waf build generates tablegen which in turn generates >keywords.h IIRC. I have no idea how the internals work. I took a look at the code. It looks like there are 2 tables of keywords, one in ntp_keyword.h (build by keyword-gen) and another in ntp_parser.y.

Re: Release

> I'll aim to release ~15-Dec-2023 Sounds good. Thanks. > I'm thinking about AES becoming the new default for ntpq, etc. I got a few a day or so ago. I missed that one. I'll get it tonight. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel ma

Any Coverity wizards?

I expect the comment on the previous line to tell Coverity to not complain about this case. Is there a typo or such that I'm missing? 149/* coverity[checked_return] */ CID 462307 (#1 of 1): Unchecked return value (CHECKED_RETURN) 15. check_return: Calling CMAC_Update without checki

What does gitlab's "Successful pipeline" mean?

Does that mean no warnings? If not, how are we expected to learn about code that generates warnings on obscure systems? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: What does gitlab's "Successful pipeline" mean?

James said: > Maybe we should add -Werror or such to CFLAGS. Sounds like a good idea to me. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Certificate geekery

Thanks. > If that's a thing you want to do on your system, you can. IMHO, it's not > something that we particularly need to promote, nor would I find it > desirable operationally. If my NTP server changes their CA provider, then I > won't be able to talk to them any more until I take manual actio

Re: Release

Fred Wright said: > The main issue I've found is that the "struct var" in ntp_control.c, is > relying on anonymous unions, which are a relatively new language feature. That is my attempt at getting a sane procedure for adding slots to the table. The old scheme required coordinated edits in sev

Re: Release

Fred Wright said: > I also stumbled across something (which may not be new) where it appears > that if libaes_siv is installed as a system library, it's preferred over the > bundled version. That probably doesn't change the actual behavior, but may > lead to opportunistic builds. That seems wort

Missing clockwork

Anybody recognize this? I've seen a missing file once before. I think it was clockwork.?? It works if I try it again. Waf: Entering directory `/home/murray/ntpsec/raw/test-all/main' --- PYTHONPATH is not set, loading the Python ntp library may be troublesome --- [ 1/137] Compiling libntp/clo

Re: Missing clockwork

James said: > It sounds like a race condition in our wscript files or waf. How willing are > you to sink time into this, I think it's a losing proposition. I've got a --jobs=1 in my script. That was added to make sure the printout was easy to read when there were compiler errors. I'm willing

Re: Regression in OpenBSD

Let's put that stuff on the back burner until the release is out. > Ntpsec doesn't fully support OpenBSD anyway, due to the lack of "timex" > (though my Mac patches fix that), and the fact that OpenBSD provides > LibreSSL rather than OpenSSL, but the 1.2.2a "Mac" version did build with > --disabl

Re: Regression in OpenBSD

>> Please say more about your Mac patches? > The patches come in two categories: > Fallback for missing clock_gettime() and clock_settime(). My copy of OpenBSD 7.4 has clock_gettime() and clock_settime(). So we can take the first step without changing that area. The timex stuff will be a bit m

Re: NTPsec 1.2.3 released

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Re: NTPsec 1.2.3 released

Fred Wright said: [context is my reply to the released message.] > For some reason the antecedent to this message wasn't sent to the list, > though I'd noticed the release by checking the repo. My copy was sent to: Subject: NTPsec 1.2.3 released From: Matthew Selsky via announce Date: Su

Re: Addressing the Python 2, AsciiDoc classic, and AsciiDoc 3 tangle

I have no strong opinions on this area. I won't grumble if our doc stuff doesn't build on Python2 as long as we have a copy of the doc on the web. Or somebody who really wants their own can build it on a more modern system and copy the files over. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

FYI: Dave Mills has passed away

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 08:35:14PM -0500, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote: > His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully > on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet. > Network Time Protocol, the Fuzzball routers of the early NSF

FreeBSD is phasing out support for 32 bit systems

Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD FreeBSD is deprecating 32-bit platforms over the next couple of major releases. We anticipate FreeBSD 15.0 will not include the armv6, i386, and powerpc platforms, and FreeBSD 16.0 will not include armv7. Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit

What next?

Is anybody thinking about what we should be doing? Here is my list: Port to Windows Does anybody know anything about Windows? Is there a decent POSIX environment? How well does waf work on Windows? We can get the magic code from ntp-classic. I think we should split ntpd into sever

Splitting ntpd

Here are the cnhnks I have in mind: NTP server NTS-KE server NTP/NTS client refclocks monitoring/ntpq I have debugged the lockclock mode so we now have a stand-alone NTP server. It gets the error data from the krenel. (Or can/should. I haven't checked that code.) As just a ser

Re: What next?

(I found some more notes...) We should test the config file stuff to see that all the options at least get past the parser. Better would be to actually run the code. We should check FIPS mode. Do any of the CI options include FIPS? I got half way there by building OpenSSL to include FIPS mode

Re: What next?

James Browning said: >> I think we should split ntpd into several independant programs. >> More in another message. > I gave up on that notion; I lacked the patience to do it. I think we can take small steps. Or at least some of them. > Yeah, the IETF NTP WG shot down the notion of NTP alter

Hack for monitoring NTP servers

If somebody feels like hacking, something like this should be fun. The idea is to setup a ntpd server watching the servers you want to monitor. (noselect on the server line does that) The new code is a program that watches that server to see if the servers to be monitored are responding corr

CI is broken

I just pushed some code. The CI stuff sent me a Failed pipeline message. [0K[31;1mERROR: Job failed: failed to pull image "registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-or g/gitlab-runner/gitlab-runner-helper:x86_64-v16.11.0" with specified policies [always]: Error response from daemon: manifest for registry.git

extra port nnnn, nts port nnnn

I just pushed code that optionally listens on a second port. The NTS-KE server will tell the client to use that port. Requests going out will be from the new port. The idea is to bypass ISP filtering on port 123. Testing encouraged. I've been testing with nts port 8123 Be sure to let traff

Crappy testing

If you use the extra port stuff I pushed last night, port 123 stops working. Ugh, blush. I usually do better than that. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: Hack for monitoring NTP servers

James Browning said: > If you were thinking of adding way too many servers you might want to replace > the bubble sort around lines 1709-1728 of ntp_proto.c That code is only sorting the servers that get used. Anything with noselect got tossed back at line 1619. if (peer_unfit(p

Is anybody using/testing the interface options?

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Testing

Does anybody test our code on Apple? Solaris? Does anybody use any of the fancy interface logic? It's available both vie the command line and the config file. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https:

Alternatives to port 123

I've pushed the code for alternatives to port 123. It's working for me, but could use more testing. You might hit a case I didn't consider. There are 2 new options for the config file: nts port extra port They do the same thing. Pick one. There are two parts. If a server uses

Re: Alternatives to port 123

Richard Laager said: > Why two options that do the same thing? Thanks for asking. I meant to say something about that. I think the reason there are two is that I had a typo or such and couldn't get >extra port < to work. After banging my head against the wall for a while, I gave up and a

Interesting (to me) Compiler checking

While I was working on the extra+port stuff I had the following code bool new_interface; ... new_interface = update_interfaces_phase1(NTP_PORT); if (extra_port) new_interface |= update_interfaces_phase1(extra_port); Note that there is no initialization on new_interface. I wanted to rev

How old a version of OpenSSL do we support?

We have code like this in several places: #ifndef EVP_MD_CTX_new #define EVP_MD_CTX_new() EVP_MD_CTX_create() #endif The man page for EVP_MD_CTX_new() says: The EVP_MD_CTX_create() and EVP_MD_CTX_destroy() functions were renamed to EVP_MD_CTX_new() and EVP_MD_CTX_free(

Re: How old a version of OpenSSL do we support?

matthew.sel...@twosigma.com said: > What's the cost of keeping 1.1.0 as the minimum version that we support? Not much if any. NTS won't work. > What's the cost of keeping 1.1.1 as the minimum version that we support? 22 ifdefs. They are all in the crypto code. None in NTS. libaes_siv ha

Strange error on NetBSD

Does anybody other than me run/test on NetBSD? The test-all part of option-tester gets the following error. ntp_stdlib includes signal.h Do we have to do some magic to make that get siginfo_t? [ 43/136] Compiling libparse/clk_sel240x.c In file included from ../../include/nt

Re: Strange error on NetBSD

James said: > After checking some webpages, I have a notion that NetBSD has siginfo, > rather than siginfo_t. If they are the same struct, then a relatively > simple #define or typedef should amend the Issue. I have not tested it > yet. The NetBSD man page says: The sigaction() function confo

Re: Strange error on NetBSD

Fred Wright said: >> The test-all part of option-tester gets the following error. > Why only in option-tester? That was just a simple way to tickle the problem. (Which was why I put it together in the first place.) The code that causes the problem is libparse/clk_sel240x.c Near the top, it

Clock fuzzing

Coverity got a little smarter and now reports a couple of cases of INTEGER_OVERFLOW in code that hasn't changed in a long time. One of them is in the clock fuzzing code. I propose to eliminate that feature. Any objections? Long story: That code dates back to the days when clocks were update

Re: Clock fuzzing

matthew.sel...@twosigma.com said: > Sounds good. Will you rip the entire thing out in 1-shot, or in chunks? > Will you remove the "waf configure --disable-fuzz" option entirely or > leave some sort of backwards-compatible option? I was going to do it in 1-shot. There aren't any obvious half-w

Anybody know anything about rtems_trace?

$ grep rtems wscript */wscript wafhelpers/* wscript:if ctx.options.enable_rtems_trace: wscript:ctx.find_program("rtems-tld", var="BIN_RTEMS_TLD", wscript: path_list=[ctx.options.rtems_trace_path, wscript:# Borrowed from https://www.rtems.org/ wscript:ctx.load

Re: Anybody know anything about rtems_trace?

Fred Wright said: > Add support for RTEMS trace. > This doesn't work yet. Chris will help me iron out the issues. Thanks. It's gone. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec

PPS on Raspberry Pi

I'm trying to setup a Pi with a GPS hat. The Microserver HOWTO says: {--config} Edit /boot/config.txt and add these lines to the end of the file, replacing 4 with the logical pin number for your HAT if it's not an Adafruit: # Get 1PPS from HAT pin dtoverlay=pps-gpio,gpiopin=4 The first

sys_vars_list

James Browning said: > You should be able to run the following to get the list of variables > (but no type info). > $ ntpq -c "rv 0 sys_vars_list" > which seem to not work for a while, I can't find any reference to sys_vars_list. I've looked in the current code and in git log -p Is that the

testing performance

[From https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/merge_requests/1399] Gary said: > But I agree with you that howto run non-root needs to be documented, and > I would also like tests in ntpd to verify the needed CAPS to run as > designed. I expect it will crash if it doesn't have the appropriate caps. M

re: CI: The "cross-build" job doesn't have EVP_MD_CTX_new

> I assume it's from this change: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/commit/ > 7c8b5fe20eafe911be4eac64467a032a52753313#887b5ad6972aa02f9a0434c248cd872a9 > 94e6fc5_44_41 Thanks. Yes. That would explain this problem. But that cleanup went in back in June. Why didn't we notice this problem ear

Re: CI: The "cross-build" job doesn't have EVP_MD_CTX_new

Thanks James said: >It is one of many jobs set up to fail withou fanfare. Nobody was >checking up on them on the pipelines tab at GitLab. Why do we have those jobs? >> Do we have a web page that describes our support policy? >Besides https://www.ntpsec.org/supported-platforms.ht

Re: CI: The "cross-build" job doesn't have EVP_MD_CTX_new

> some twenty one of them build docker images weekly, Does anybody test them? Who gets the output of weekly builds? > Which of these jobs should become noisy and which ones should go away? If we are going to run a job, somebody should check the results. So I vote that all are noisy. If we

Re: CI: The "cross-build" job doesn't have EVP_MD_CTX_new

Gary said: >> >It is one of many jobs set up to fail withou fanfare. Nobody was >> >checking up on them on the pipelines tab at GitLab. >> Why do we have those jobs? > To test commits that they don't break the build. Right. But if they fail silently nobody notices that something is bro

sizeof a struct element

I'm trying to cleanup the tangle in ntp_control.c that generates warnings. They may be actual bugs. The problem is that the man page says long while the actual size may be 32 or 64 on 32 bit Linux systems. If I knew the size, the fix would be simple. wscript has code to get the size of a type

Re: sizeof a struct element

Fred Wright said: > You can just use sizeof(). The only caveat is that there's no way > (AFAIK) to apply it to an element of an abstract type, so you need a > concrete instance to apply it to. But the concrete instance can even be > just a pointer, as long as it's a pointer to a complete str

Re: Pivoting

e...@thyrsus.com said: > We can't fix *that*, either. All we can do is add a warning to the man > pages for NMEA-related drivers that if your GPS is older than 1024 weeks you > may be cruising for a bruising. I think I'll go do that. We need to find out when they added the 3 extra bits. --

Re: I think we can drop the Jupiter driver.

devel@ntpsec.org said: > I think we can drop the Jupiter driver. I looked for rollover compensation > and didn't find it. Instead there's this at line 1019: You could use it as an example of how to do it right. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _

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