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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