ntploggps/ntplogtemp: Cron vs Daemon

[Richard Laager]

I am still using my day job email on this list. But this question is 
mostly me as the Debian package maintainer.

Is there a particular and/or good reason that, in upstream NTPsec, 
ntploggps and ntplogtemp are run from cron/systemd timers as opposed to 
run as daemons (i.e. from a sysvinit script / systemd service)?

That is, instead of running them with `-o` every 5 minutes, why not have 
them be long-running with `-w 300`?

One possible answer might be: When originally written, nobody added Unix 
daemonization code (something something double-fork()), so running from 
cron was trivial but running from sysvinit was not.

This was pointed out to me in a Debian bug. I am tentatively planning on 
switching them to run as daemons.

-- 
Richard