[Xymon] Call for 4.3.29 Patches

[Axel Beckert]

Hi JC,

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:07:11PM -0700, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
[ntpsec's ntpdate dropped -p option]
> Axel: Is that ending up in xymonnet.log, or is it elsewhere?

It's ending up in the report itself:

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Thu Apr 11 18:40:41 2019 ntp NOT ok

Service ntp on kote5 is not OK : Service unavailable

Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 1 127.0.0.1 2>&1

ntpdate: -p is no longer supported.
ntpdig: 127.0.0.1: Response dropped: stratum 0, probable KOD packet
ntpdig: no eligible servers
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(The last two lines are from a not fully started ntpd.)

> And over STDERR?

Over STDERR, yes.

It also does seem to still exit with zero, so the only result is this
warning (unrecognized by Xymon as such) in the report.

So I'd say, as of now, it's indeed safe to keep "-p 1" as it still
works. The errors in the example (which actually triggered my mail
initially) above were caused by other issues, i.e. the red state was
legit. :-)

Later (i.e. with a fixed configuration and ntpd running for a while)
it looked like this:

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Thu Apr 11 18:59:44 2019 ntp ok

Service ntp on kote5 is OK (up)

Command: ntpdate -u -q 127.0.0.1 2>&1

2019-04-11 18:59:44.967208 (-0200) -0.000018 +/- 0.000064 127.0.0.1 s3 no-leap
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In comparison to old ntpdate looks like this:

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Fri Mar 29 13:42:50 2019 ntp ok

Service ntp on kote5 is OK (up)

Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 1 127.0.0.1 2>&1

server 127.0.0.1, stratum 2, offset -0.000018, delay 0.02570
29 Mar 13:42:53 ntpdate[25715]: adjust time server 127.0.0.1 offset -0.000018 sec
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(No proper time format, no time zone, no year, duplicated information,
multi-line, etc. :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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