[ntp:hackers] Statsdir behavior

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Dec 21 15:08:50 UTC 2005


Heiko Gerstung wrote:
> David J Taylor wrote:
>> I don't run UNIX so I don't know how the UNIX variant of NTP
>> interprets X:/tmp versus X:/tmp/.  If there is a pre-defined
>> behaviour, we should check that before doing what I suggest for
>> Windows.  Or perhaps the UNIX variant should behave the same way as
>> I suggest for Windows.  I'm looking for UNIX user comments here.
> 
> Confirmed also under Linux. If you use "statsdir /var/log" in your
> ntp.conf it will generate statistic files like
> "/var/logloopstats.20051220", "/var/logsystats.20051220" and so on...
> 
> Regards,
> Heiko


Thanks for checking.

So would the UNIX variant guys also like:

  /var/log

to mean:

  /var/log/

if that directory exists?  If so, perhaps common code could be used.

David


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