Re: leap-second error in console

> On Jan 14, 2024, at 17:45, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 5:38 PM void <void@f-m.fm <mailto:void@f-m.fm>> wrote:
>> Context is stable/13-n257165-4c4633fdffbe amd64 built 
>> Mon Jan 15 00:20:52 2024 UTC
>> 
>> In the console, the following is displayed
>> 
>> Security policy loaded: MAC/ntpd (mac_ntpd)
>> Starting ntpd.
>> Jan 15 00:26:48 cloud ntpd[3412]: leapsecond file ('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): expired 19 days ago
>> 
>> How to fix/does it need fixing? thanks in advance for any assistance
> 
> Add
> 
> ntp_leapfile_sources="https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list"
> 
> to your /etc/rc.conf file. This is the reliable, freely available source for the leap seconds
> list. We should make that the default, but doing so has been rough sledding for reasons
> that I'm not sure I agree with, but that I at least understand.

That didn't work for me.  Looking through /etc/rc.d/ntpd, it appears that 
	ntp_db_leapfile="YES"
is also required.  However, with both of those I still get on ntpd restart (removing comment lines): 




Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68230]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 (Terminated)
Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68281]: ntpd 4.2.8p16-a (1): Starting
Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68281]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/db/ntp/ntpd.pid -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /var/db/ntp/ntpd.drift -g
Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68282]: leapsecond file ('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): good hash signature
Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68282]: leapsecond file ('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): loaded, expire=2023-12-28T00:00:00Z last=2017-01-01T00:00:00Z ofs=37
Jan 14 18:35:43 test ntpd[68282]: leapsecond file ('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): expired 19 days ago

-- Doug