Package: ntpsec
Version: 1.2.2+dfsg1-1+deb12u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I was centralizing logging recently and have been delinting my syslog(s).
I noticed the following frequently repeating pattern
2025-08-25T20:50:01.874794+00:00 tera003 CRON[908057]: (root) CMD (if [ !
-d /run/systemd/system ] && [ -x /usr/sbin/ntplogtemp ] ; then
/usr/sbin/ntplogtemp -o -l /var/log/ntpsec/temps ; fi)
2025-08-25T20:53:22.138293+00:00 tera003 systemd[1]: Started
ntplogtemp.service - Temperature information logger for ntpviz.
2025-08-25T20:53:23.802596+00:00 tera003 systemd[1]: ntplogtemp.service:
Deactivated successfully.
Checking /etc/cron.d/ntpsec-ntpviz , I find
*/5 * * * * root if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ] && [ -x
/usr/sbin/ntplogtemp
] ; then /usr/sbin/ntplogtemp -o -l /var/log/ntpsec/temps ; fi
This is an odd way to use ntplogtemp because the -o option causes the
observed chatty log behaviour every 5 minutes. However, the -w 300 option
should cause a running instance of ntplogtemp to log every 5 minutes
without as much syslog traffic.
Maybe ntplogtemp should be set up as a system service (and use its internal
timing to set logging frequency) to eliminate this stream of syslog traffic.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500,
'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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 ntpsec depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libbsd0 0.11.7-2
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10
ii libcap2 1:2.66-4+deb12u1
ii libssl3 3.0.16-1~deb12u1
ii lsb-base 11.6
ii netbase 6.4
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-ntp 1.2.2+dfsg1-1+deb12u1
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4
ii tzdata 2025b-0+deb12u1
Versions of packages ntpsec recommends:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-162
ii systemd 252.36-1~deb12u1
Versions of packages ntpsec suggests:
ii apparmor 3.0.8-3
pn certbot <none>
ii ntpsec-doc 1.2.2+dfsg1-1+deb12u1
pn ntpsec-ntpviz <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf changed:
driftfile /var/lib/ntpsec/ntp.drift
leapfile /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
server 127.127.1.1
fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 12
tos orphan 8
tos maxclock 11
tos minclock 4 minsane 3
server time.weirdhouse.fuzzy prefer burst iburst minpoll 4 maxpoll 6
restrict default kod nomodify nopeer noquery limited
restrict 10.255.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 kod notrap nomodify nopeer
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict ::1
-- no debconf information
