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

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hi,
you are right - so what do you suppose, should we try to come up with a
"new style" logcheck.ignore file?
If so i'll be trying to create an initial version for you to check.

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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