ntploopstat files in /var/tmp

[John Donaldson]

These files are good size and seems top roll over ever 1 to 3 days. Older versions of these files are named, as an example, ntploopstat.2022w42. I need space and I want to purge some of these except the current file and maybe the last five. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It sounds like you have the statistics options turned on in your NTP daemon (xtntd). Take a look at the man page for xntpd and it will explain the 'statistics' option, and the 'filegen' utility which is used to manage the statistics.

Here is a snippet from the 'xntpd' man page:

"Statistic files are managed using file generation sets (see filegen below). The information obtained by enabling statistics recording allows analysis of temporal properties of a xntpd server. It is usually only useful to primary servers or maybe main campus servers."

If you aren't trying to analyze your ntp performance, I'd suggest commenting out the 'statistics' and 'filegen' parts of your /etc/xntpd.conf file and those files will probably stop being created.

JP

[John Donaldson]

Thanks for the response. I've purged all but the files for the last month and have disabled future stat gathering. All set. - JD