Fwd: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/commit/0a2bb57e7c0b13c9f54150773b8798102f4b593d

[Eric S. Raymond]

James Browning via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 5:55 AM Udo van den Heuvel via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Why is NTP in uppercase?
> >
> > statistics directory /var/NTP/ does not exist or is unwriteable, error
> > No such file or directory
> >
> Probably because someone typod it wrong in another commit.
> 'NTP' is contained in neither the commit message or difference.

Hysterical raisins.  That really is the wired-in default from the depths
of time.  You just never saw it beforr because the stock ntp.conf example
everyone passews around overrides it.
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