Possible abuse from fetching the leap second file

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Aug 15 20:26:31 UTC 2016


kurt at roeckx.be said:
> However, I already get a /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list from the
> tzdata package that updates the timezone information and I should probably
> look into using that file to update things. Those files get regular updates.
>  The tz at iana.org list has been notified, the git repository updated, there
> just hans't been a release since. 

Thanks.  I didn't know it was getting distributed.  That looks like the way 
to go.

You don't need to "update things".  Just point ntp.conf at that file.

I don't see that file in Fedora yet.  Time to see if I can help get it there.


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