Re: ntpd crashes.
On 12Sep23:0208-0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote:
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> >Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time;
> >one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine,
> >and should log this fact so the admin can make the proper
> >measures) but a different thing is completely killing the
> >service.
>
> That issue has been argued on the NTP developer mailing lists.
> Crashing the daemon is Dave Mills' way of telling the admin
> that something is badly broken here and needs to be fixed.
> Several developers (myself included) disagreed with him at the
> time, but he was adamant on the subject. So that's the way it
> is.
There must be at least one patch available and maintained
that can be applied to modify the official distribution's
behavior if multiple developers disagree with this
behavior. Where should one look?
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