Re: Bad idea to allow ntpd to write to /var/log/ntpstats/ on diskless workstations? (Was: r74218 - in trunk/src/debian-edu-config: debian share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d)

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Petter,

On Do 22 Sep 2011 16:27:33 CEST Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Mike Gabriel]
> > +debian-edu-config (1.446~svn74196) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> > +
> > +  * Provide LTSP rwbind on diskless workstations for /var/log/ntpstats
> > +    (closes #638287).
>
> This is probably a bad idea, as ntpd will fill up this directory with
> logs, and thus slowly eat RAM away from the diskless machine.  I decided
> to not make this directory writable to avoid it, as ntpd work fine
> without write access to this directory.  The only issue is some warnings
> from ntpd, and these can be ignored.

Ah... ok... Thanks! I'll take a even more close look and potentially  
revert this commit then.

Greets,
Mike


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