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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:46:49 +0300
From: Maxim Timofeyev <tmahome@....spb.ru>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openntpd: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed

Hi!

It is a bug report.
ntpd started and terminating.

Solar Designer ะฟะธั.ะตั.:
> Maxim,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0300, Maxim Timofeyev wrote:
>> # rpm -q openntpd
>> openntpd-3.7p1-owl2
>>
>> # grep ntpd /var/log/messages | tail
>> Dec  2 17:45:12 tma ntpd[30527]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
>> Dec  2 17:45:12 tma ntpd[30527]: Terminating
>>
>> # ps ax | grep ntpd | grep -v grep
>> 19584 pts/3    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -s
>> 19591 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -s
> 
> It is not clear what you mean by this.  Is this a bug report?  If so,
> what's the bug?  From the log file entries, it is seen that you had
> terminated ntpd (one of its processes complained about the other's
> death, but that's fine).  From the process list, it is seen that you
> have ntpd running again.
> 
> Actually, I think there are a couple of things we could improve.  We
> could make the log file messages less confusing.  We could also have
> _both_ ntpd processes detach from the tty.  None of this is specific to
> Owl (those are properties of OpenNTPD), but, yes, we could patch this.
> 

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