[email protected] wrote: > On Jan 10, 8:23 pm, Unruh <[email protected]> wrote: >> What version of ntp are you running? I have 4.2.4p4 and it creates a new >> set of statistics files every day, saving the old ones in the form >> /var/log/ntp/peerstats.20090101 /var/log/ntp/peerstats.20090106 > > As far as I can tell ntp creates peerstats and peerstats.20090111 at > the same time. Both filenames are just hard links to the same file on > the disk. If you remove peerstats.20090111 ntp will continue to write > it's stats to peerstats. At the beginning of a new day ntp recognizes > that peerstats.20090111 is not present and then renames peerstats to a > backup file called peerstats.1281C0. So far so good, but the problem > seems to be that ntp doesn't this exactly at 00:00 but at first file > access after 00:00. The cryptostats file only gets one or two entries > every day, so the first access to it could be much later than 00:40 > when my script moves the stats files of the last day to a fileserver. > > PS: I have to to this because my ntp servers run on 1 GB SD cards and > there is not much space for stats files ;-) >
If you don't need the statistics don't define them in your configuration file. Most people don't use stats. Do you actually use them? Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
