Re: ntpd segfaults on start

From: Konstantin Belousov <kib_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 10:56:19 +0300
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:53:19AM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Cy,
> 
> On 9/6/2019 4:56 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > For those who enable ASLR, a better workaround is, to add this to your 
> > ntp.conf:
> > 
> > rlimit memlock 64
> > 
> > Until a more precise default is determined.
> 
> Should I change the default value for FreeBSD-12 to be 64 for now?
> 
> I can get this change in place for the upcoming ntp-4.2.8p14 release,
> and we can change it later if needed.

ASLR is disabled by default, so if anybody tweak a system config, she
should know better to tweak ntpd as well.  I am fine with changing the
defaults for ntpd, but I think that more useful would be to update
the documentation (but where to put it ?).
Received on Sat Sep 07 2019 - 05:56:32 UTC

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