On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 04:43:53PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
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?Well the obvious way would be to use a directory which is owned by the ntpd user. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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