[Xymon] Call for 4.3.29 Patches

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 4/11/2019 12:12 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:33:51AM -0800, John Thurston wrote:
>>> So it might be an idea to drop the "-p 1" completely.
>> That seems premature. The fact that ntpseq has dropped the parameter
>> does not make it common or standard.
> I expect ntpsec to become standard in the near future. See
> https://www.ntpsec.org/FAQ.html#_why_ntpsec why.
>
> I though must admit, that we're still far away from there, at least in
> Debian:
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ntpsec%2Cntpsec-ntpdate%2Cntp%2Cntpdate&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>
> But a decline of ntp installations is clearly visible in that graph
> (probably due to systemd also providing a time service, though).
>
> And ntpsec is not yet available in a Debian Stable release, but will
> be in the upcoming Debian 10 release "buster".
>
> And what also just became clear to me is that only the ntp-announce
> mailing list is dead with only a single mail since mid 2015 (c.f.
> http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/announce/), but there seems to be at
> least about 1 security update per year:
> http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice
>
> Maybe forking off ntpsec in 2015 was a kinda wakeup call, at least the
> amount of security fixes in 2016 was much high than in the years
> afterwards.
>
>> I don't think it is reasonable to build in a 4x longer delay for
>> everyone.
> I think Xymon should support both variants by using default settings
> which work with both implementations.
>
> But maybe it should indeed do that only with a later release, when
> ntpsec gained more traction and is available in more stable
> distributions.
>
> 		Kind regards, Axel


It's definitely worth calling out in the notes somewhere for those 
platforms affected. F30 at least is still using legacy ntpdate.

Axel: Is that ending up in xymonnet.log, or is it elsewhere? And over 
STDERR?

-jc