[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#863857: Bug#863857: $PIDFILE unset, so writes to a file called /-g

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed pending experimental

On 01.06.2017 06:07, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+exp2
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper
> 
> Because $PIDFILE is never set, you end up writing the PIDFILE to a file
> called "/-g" in the root file system.
> 
> By the way stopping the deamon does not remove the PIDFILE either,
> thus your next version should clean the stray /-g file off the users'
> systems lest it be left there forever.

Thanks for the report, this will be fixed in the next upload (already
uploaded, but will hit NEW due to a new binary package).

Bernhard