[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#387889: ntpdate: error message also seen at boot time

[Chris Moore]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #387889

I just spent a while tracking down the source of this bug, only to
find it was already reported.  I saw the error message from sed at
boot time - I wasn't running ifup manually, so it's less than obvious
which script is causing the error message.

Here's a patch to fix it:

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--- /etc/default/ntpdate.old	2006-09-19 23:11:25.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/default/ntpdate	2006-09-15 11:30:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Servers to check (Separate multiple servers with spaces.)
 # This code will take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp,
 # so you only have to keep it in one place.
-NTPSERVERS=$(sed -rne 's/^(server|peer) ([-_.[:alnum:]]+).*$/\2/p' /etc/ntp.conf 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^127\.127\.')
+NTPSERVERS=$(sed -rne 's/^(server|peer) ([-_.[:alnum:]]+).*$/\2/p' /etc/ntp.conf | grep -v '^127\.127\.' 2>/dev/null)
 if [ -z "$NTPSERVERS" ]; then
 	NTPSERVERS="0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org 2.debian.pool.ntp.org 3.debian.pool.ntp.org"
 fi
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Although maybe it would be better to explicitly check that
/etc/ntp.conf exists and is readable rather than just redirecting the
error to /dev/null.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-1    SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                      4.26        Basic TCP/IP networking system

ntpdate recommends no packages.

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