[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#822961: Bug#822961: logcheck file for ntp

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:09:21AM -0500, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> I let ntp run as it is today for it's "normal" tasks:
> - start/stop/restart service
> - keeping it up some time
> - set time in the background.
> 
> I created a logcheck file for that which should cover the basics for todays
> output format.
> I guess that should be a fine start for a logcheck filter, if there ever
> need to be more it can easily be added later.
> 
> It would be great if you could give it a review and throw it into the
> package again as it was before the old bug I referred to above.

I think this line shouldn't be ignored:
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ ntpd\[[0-9]+\]: receive: Unexpected origin timestamp from ([0-9.]{7,15}|[0-9a-fA-F:.]{4,39})

But it does seem to show up more than it should.


Kurt