bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:24:54PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> 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:
>      > 
>      > 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.

Hm, how do other distros avoid this problem?

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