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Archive => 21.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: Maarten on December 13, 2021, 01:50:24 pm

Title: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: Maarten on December 13, 2021, 01:50:24 pm

Hi, I've got a problem with aliases not being updated. The reason seems to be that the timestamp of it lies within the future.

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/var/db/aliastables

-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel    32 Jan 14 13:54:39 2022 WebServers.md5.txt
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel   250 Jan 14 13:54:39 2022 WebServers.self.txt
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel   250 Jan 14 13:54:39 2022 WebServers.txt

What's the best approach to solve this? I can do a "touch"  to the file to give it the current timestamp, but I don't know if that's the way to go or even which of the 3 files to touch.

Best regards,

Maarten

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: Fright on December 13, 2021, 04:20:28 pm

Hi
imho deleting *.md5.* and waiting for the next update cycle should be enough

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: Maarten on December 15, 2021, 08:35:58 am

Hi Fright,

Thanks for your response, this did the job perfectly!

Best regards

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: franco on December 15, 2021, 09:45:12 am

Hi Maarten,

Is this a VM? It's likely a VM because the time sync is running fast? :)


Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: Maarten on December 15, 2021, 09:56:01 am

Hi Franco,

Yes it's a VM, I always disable timesync, but maybe it was activated at some time during a VM move or so.

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: franco on December 15, 2021, 12:43:07 pm

I've seen Hyper-V running fast quite a bit (a second for each minute or so) in the last couple of years with customers so much so that NTP stops correcting it at some point because of too much time drift. :(

Might be good to keep this under observation since it could expire SSL authentication which is really annoying trying to figure out what's going on.


Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: Aliases not being updated, because "Last Updated" is in the future
Post by: Maarten on December 15, 2021, 12:48:07 pm

Thanks for the info!