On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:41:51AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: <snip> > Dec 19 00:22:26 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 > Dec 19 01:47:48 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 > Dec 19 02:04:52 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
Looks very familiar, unfortunately. <snip> > I looked at the ntpd code for this, and there does not appear to > be a way to disable logging of this message without impacting other > important ntpd messages. :-( Since this is about the only message I ever see from ntpd, I put the following line in /etc/ntpd.conf: logconfig -syncall At least this got rid of those annoying messages. Maybe syncinfo or syncevents would be sufficient to kill these messages. I haven't checked if LOG_NOTICE in the source code is equivalent to the message type "info" in the manpage. IMHO, it violates the tradition that programs shouldn't blather. The following patch to ntp_loopfilter.c should quell the message: -------------------- STFU patch -------------------- --- ntp_loopfilter.c.orig Tue Dec 19 14:13:25 2006 +++ ntp_loopfilter.c Tue Dec 19 14:14:02 2006 @@ -593,12 +593,6 @@ "kernel time sync disabled %04x", ntv.status); ntv.status &= ~(STA_PPSFREQ | STA_PPSTIME); - } else { - if (ntv.status != pll_status) - NLOG(NLOG_SYNCEVENT | NLOG_SYSEVENT) - msyslog(LOG_NOTICE, - "kernel time sync enabled %04x", - ntv.status); } pll_status = ntv.status; if (pll_nano) -------------------- STFU patch -------------------- Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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