[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#598313: samba: nss_wins overwrites ntpd in syslog

[Chris Purves]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny13
Severity: normal


I recently installed logcheck and noticed that there were what appeared 
to be items in the syslog from ntpd that were written as being from 
nss_wins:

Sep 27 16:25:49 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: synchronized to 72.55.146.217, 
stratum 2
Sep 27 16:34:08 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: time reset +0.177521 s
Sep 27 16:40:17 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: synchronized to 72.55.146.217, 
stratum 2
Sep 27 16:47:45 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: synchronized to 66.102.79.92, 
stratum 2
Sep 27 16:57:57 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: synchronized to 72.55.146.217, 
stratum 2

If I restart ntp the problem appears to correct itself:

Sep 27 17:11:08 vesuvius nss_wins[3411]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23983]: ntpd 4.2.4p4 at 1.1520-o Sun Nov 22 
16:14:34
UTC 2009 (1)
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23984]: precision = 1.000 usec
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23984]: Listening on interface #0 
wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23984]: Listening on interface #1 
wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23984]: Listening on interface #2 lo, 
::1#123 Enabled
Sep 27 17:11:11 vesuvius ntpd[23984]: Listening on interface #3 eth1, 
fe80::21a:92ff:fe4d:f9ec#123 Enabled

If I restart samba, the problem comes back:

Sep 27 17:21:30 vesuvius ntpd[24209]: kernel time sync status 0040
Sep 27 17:21:30 vesuvius ntpd[24209]: frequency initialized -120.689 PPM 
from /v
ar/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
>> /etc/init.d/samba restart
Sep 27 17:21:50 vesuvius nss_wins[24209]: synchronized to 129.128.5.211, 
stratum 1
Sep 27 17:21:50 vesuvius nss_wins[24209]: kernel time sync status change 
0001

This bug appears to be reported on Ubuntu as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/148459

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1         2.2.47-2                 Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1        1:2.4.43-2               Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1+lenny8           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1+lenny2          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0        1.14-4                   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc1      1.2.0~git20080616-1      hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0    2:3.2.5-4lenny13         client library for interfacing wit
ii  logrotate       3.7.1-5                  Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common    2:3.2.5-4lenny13         Samba common files used by both th
ii  update-inetd    4.31                     inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

samba recommends no packages.

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ldb-tools                   <none>       (no description available)
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
pn  smbldap-tools               <none>       (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/tdbsam: false
* samba/generate_smbpasswd: true