[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#484975: Bug#484975: ntpdate's ip-up script suppresses all of its stderr output

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Sun Jun 15 22:15:25 UTC 2008


Josip Rodin wrote:
> /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate suppresses all stderr output from ntpdate,
> which is a bad idea. If it fails, I want to know about it.

Well, I think that script should be considered a background action.  Often 
times, network interfaces are now brought up implicitly and without a 
terminal being visible.  Therefore all the error messages go to the log file.  
Even if the 2>/dev/null were removed, you still wouldn't see most error 
messages, because they are in the log.  (In fact, they should *all* go the 
log, and the fact that some do not is a sign of a fault in ntpdate.)  And 
suggesting not to send the errors to the log at all would be a mistake in my 
opinion.





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