[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#822961: Bug#822961: ntp logging (?again?) in a way to be catched by logcheck

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:00:36PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3+b1
> 
> Hi,
> debugging a rather old issue I realized that the changes made back when
> uploading 4.2.6+dfsg-1 might no more completely apply.
> 
> I quote from the changelog in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498992:
> "* Remove ntp.logcheck.ignore.server, none of those messages are send to
> syslog now.  (Closes: #498992)"
> 
> But I had to find that this today still (?again?) happens.
> So much could have been changed on how the log data flows.
> 
> But testing is rather easy:
> apt-get install logcheck
> apt-get install ntp
> service ntp restart
> 
> Then logcheck will report about everything from ntp:
> sudo -u logcheck logcheck -s -o -t | grep ntp | wc -l
> 41

It seems to generate other messages now too than it used to.


Kurt