On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 11:01:45AM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Perhaps gentler wording would be appropriate?  If not, I guess sysadmin could 
> infer the same thing from the lack of a connection success message.  I guess 
> I could also filter out the case of an existing unix socket, with proper 
> permissions, that just isn't accepting connections, from all the other error 
> conditions, that aren't dependent on state of Samba running or not.

I'd suggest to only log errors, not successes, and only once between
successful connections.

> I suppose if Samba failing and recovering quickly being the cause of log 
> flooding is a concern, a rate limit could be set?  But it seems like there 
> are bigger problems if that is the case.

Fair enough.

> The general principle I'm aiming for, is that problems due to samba not 
> running, permission errors, config file errors, should be made obvious, and 
> shouldn't require  tcpdump, debug logs, reading source code, and other low 
> level approaches.

Yes, that makes sense to me.

> Stil, it's pretty nice to have a working NTP that requires zero config for 
> Windows clients.

I hope they will start using NTS and this signd hack can be dropped
eventually.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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