Re: rdate gets pledge error with -c option

Todd C. Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:03:23 +1000, David Leadbeater wrote:

> This is because ntp.c attempts to open /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/UTC.
> The following fixes the pledge issues. Although I don't know where
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/ is supposed to come from and strangely I
> don't see an error from failing to open this.

We don't install /usr/share/zoneinfo/right by default.  Like most
systems, we just install the POSIX zoneinfo files and not the vesion
that counts leap seconds.

Since the rdate -c option won't work with the default install, is
there any reason to keep it?

 - todd
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