[CentOS] leap second

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 16:09:41 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:
>
> I thought this was some sort of late April fools joke,
> untill I read the article about ntpd on slashdot.

I'm sort of curious about how a bug of this magnitude slips through
the QA process (into java and RHEL, not CentOS).  With all the furor
about y2k, did no one even bother to simulate a leap second ahead of
the real occurrence?

> My Centos 5.8 box is running ntpd, and I did not notice any
> problems with it. I do a weekly yum update early Sunday
> mornings, but AFAIR I have not rebooted the box yet.

I don't think it affected 5.x.

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   Les Mikesell
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