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From: =?utf-8?q?Martin_Haa=C3=9F?= <vvvrrooomm@gmail.com>
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Subject: ntpd-rs: directory seems to be missing on first startup
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Package: ntpd-rs
Version: 1.7.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: vvvrrooomm@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

on first startup ntpd-rs print the following warning
WARN Observer{path=Some("/var/run/ntpd-rs/observe")}: ntpd::daemon::observer: Abnormal termination of the state observer: Could not create observe socket at "/var/run/ntpd-rs/observe" because its parent directory does not exist

observation-path was not modified in the configuration.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Startup without warning about missing directories would be appreciated. 

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
the folder was created manually. But nowadays /var/run is on tmpfs, so the folder should be created at every startup
   * What was the outcome of this action?
no more warning today :) 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ntpd-rs depends on:
ii  adduser    3.154
ii  libc6      2.42-13
ii  libgcc-s1  16-20260308-1

ntpd-rs recommends no packages.

ntpd-rs suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ntpd-rs/ntp.toml changed:
[observability]
log-level = "info"
observation-path = "/var/run/ntpd-rs/observe"
[[source]]
mode = "pool"
address = "2.de.pool.ntp.org"
count = 4
[[server]]
listen = "[::]:123"
[synchronization]
single-step-panic-threshold = 1800
startup-step-panic-threshold = { forward="inf", backward = 86400 }


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