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bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file.
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John Darrington |
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bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file. |
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Date: |
Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:24:54 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 04:22:09PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 07:45:47PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> Running the ntpd service I see lots of messages in /var/log/messages
like:
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> Sep 4 13:02:21 localhost ntpd[302]: frequency file
/var/run/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied
Can the user that runs ntpd write to that directory?
No. ntpd runs as its own user. /var/run is owned by root.
Is there a build time configuration that we should tweak?
Not that I'm aware of.
J'
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