suspicious ntpleapfetch checksum error
Martin Boissonneault
dev at ve2mrx.dyndns.info
Tue May 5 19:14:22 UTC 2020
Hi!
It's time for a new leap-second update (no new leap second), and I get
this error in my cron job (reproduced here out of CRON):
> root at rPi:~# CRONJOB=1 /usr/local/bin/ntpleapfetch -e "60 days"
> /usr/local/bin/ntpleapfetch: 1: printf: a1c168ae: expected numeric value
> <27>May 5 14:57:05 ntpleapfetch[19554]: Checksum of /tmp/leap-seconds.19554.tmp is invalid:
> <27>May 5 14:57:05 ntpleapfetch[19554]: EXPECTED: 0000000027c79a7d9dddcfc3bcfe616b2e2c44ea
> <27>May 5 14:57:05 ntpleapfetch[19554]: COMPUTED: a1c168ae27c79a7d9dddcfc3bcfe616b2e2c44ea
> <28>May 5 14:57:05 ntpleapfetch[19554]: Downloaded file /tmp/leap-seconds.19554.tmp rejected -- saved for diagnosis
> --2020-05-05 14:57:04-- https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list
> Resolving www.ietf.org (www.ietf.org)... 104.20.0.85, 104.20.1.85, 2606:4700:10::6814:155, ...
> Connecting to www.ietf.org (www.ietf.org)|104.20.0.85|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/plain]
> Saving to: ‘/tmp/leap-seconds.19554.tmp’
> 0K .......... 2.70M=0.004s
> 2020-05-05 14:57:05 (2.70 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/leap-seconds.19554.tmp’ saved [10665]
>
The file downloaded looks good, it's attached. The odd part is the
//usr/local/bin/ntpleapfetch: 1: printf: a1c168ae: expected numeric
value/ part, and the /a1c168ae/ part is the part later shown as zeroes
in the expected checksum part. The checksum, with that part substituted,
is what is computed.
Any idea? I'm using NTPsec 1.1.8 compiled from the release tarball on
the current Raspbian Buster for the Raspberry Pi 3B+.
Thanks,
Martin
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