- Issued:
- 2008-05-21
- Updated:
- 2008-05-21
RHBA-2008:0077 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
ntp bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated ntp package that fix several bugs and adds some enhancements to
the man pages is now available.
Description
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time
with a referenced time source.
The following issues have been addressed in this update:
- The ntp daemon would produce "floating-point assist fault" messages
roughly every five minutes on the Itanium architecture due to
uninitialized values in the clockselect function.
In addition, the following enhancements to the man pages for the ntp
package have been added:
- the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ntp package has been updated to include
the ntp.conf and other related man pages.
- the man pages have been updated with a section describing the exit codes
for ntpd.
- the ntpd man page has been updated to mention that ntpd options
interprets relative pathnames as relative to the root directory rather than
any other directory.
Users of ntp are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves
these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 246568 - Man page for ntpd specifies -c option which requires absolute path.
- BZ - 307271 - RFE: ntp.conf man page is missing
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
x86_64 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9396d49cf7b8b77e13db5d7106aef42178ab76c28fe22ae7f92e0db033329824 |
ia64 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 7006a1685c724154818bc59d08ac593606baf7300032653c50f6a71c1b66722c |
i386 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7c9762edba016af7c320353451c3b7c25abcbafe994a8a5f1a2c7d6cdae1ceee |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
x86_64 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9396d49cf7b8b77e13db5d7106aef42178ab76c28fe22ae7f92e0db033329824 |
i386 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7c9762edba016af7c320353451c3b7c25abcbafe994a8a5f1a2c7d6cdae1ceee |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
x86_64 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9396d49cf7b8b77e13db5d7106aef42178ab76c28fe22ae7f92e0db033329824 |
i386 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7c9762edba016af7c320353451c3b7c25abcbafe994a8a5f1a2c7d6cdae1ceee |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
s390x | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: e65c01df54ac890b4af9f940f85f5469ca4b288c25ebf1a7bb9215985af6f229 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
ppc | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 96a11a4488072770d01a72b5d36ee5a91bb47bb4c3b9fe4a26099d6e65ea88d0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: ef3a26341ea4186c57e0025843ce479393fb1dd71053cd263593ac1c325fbd54 |
x86_64 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9396d49cf7b8b77e13db5d7106aef42178ab76c28fe22ae7f92e0db033329824 |
i386 | |
ntp-4.2.2p1-8.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7c9762edba016af7c320353451c3b7c25abcbafe994a8a5f1a2c7d6cdae1ceee |
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