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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:09:30 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openntpd: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:15:04AM +0300, Maxim Timofeyev wrote:
> Hmm. I got a bit confused with its behavior. I've been using OpenNTPD
> for quite a while, but I would never encounter such behaviour.
> First, it used to log it's time sync actions:
>
> Nov 24 14:35:42 www ntpd[419]: adjusting local clock by -192.952421s
> Nov 24 14:40:03 www ntpd[419]: adjusting local clock by -192.819198s
> It doesn't any more now.
This is the documented behavior. It would only log time adjustments
larger than 128ms.
> It would also never write such messages:
> Dec 6 10:25:22 www ntpd[5506]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
> Dec 6 10:25:22 www ntpd[5506]: Terminating
Well, I don't know why not. Maybe you were using an older version.
> Moreover,
> it launches and works ok, but the following log string is confusing:
> Dec 6 10:25:22 www ntpd[5506]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
> I believe that the termination notification string would be enough.
Yes, I agree that this is confusing. It's a side effect of privsep.
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