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and subject line Re: openntpd: man pages: bad pathnames for ntpd.drift and
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: openntpd
Version: 1:6.8p1-3
Severity: minor
The ntpd(8) man page has two occurrences of "/var/lib/ntpd.drift"
and one occurrence of "/run/ntpd.sock". The ntpctl(8) man page also
has one occurrence of "/run/ntpd.sock".
These pathnames are incorrect in Debian. The correct ones are
/var/lib/openntpd/db/ntpd.drift
/var/lib/openntpd/run/ntpd.sock
I'm actually wondering whether the second one (for both the actual
pathname and the reference in the man pages) should be changed to
/run/openntpd/ntpd.sock, though.
I suppose that these pathnames are due to
--localstatedir=/var/lib/openntpd
in the debian/rules file, and that upstream should take care of
the --localstatedir config when installing the man pages. However,
I can see debian/patches/02-debianize-man-pages.patch, which
changes the pathnames in an incorrect way.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages openntpd depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-15
ii netbase 6.5
ii systemd [systemd-sysusers] 260.1-1
openntpd recommends no packages.
Versions of packages openntpd suggests:
ii apparmor 4.1.7-2
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:20:03 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: openntpd
> Version: 1:6.8p1-3
> Severity: minor
>
> The ntpd(8) man page has two occurrences of "/var/lib/ntpd.drift"
> and one occurrence of "/run/ntpd.sock". The ntpctl(8) man page also
> has one occurrence of "/run/ntpd.sock".
>
> These pathnames are incorrect in Debian. The correct ones are
>
> /var/lib/openntpd/db/ntpd.drift
> /var/lib/openntpd/run/ntpd.sock
Those hard-coded paths were fixed upstream in 7.9p1, which has been in
Testing for a while. Closing.
Martin-Éric
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