Maarten Wiltink wrote:
> "David J Taylor"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>
>>> There's an environment variable 'RANDFILE' on my system with a
>>> likely- looking path. OTOH, it may be for PuTTY.
>
>> Thanks, Maarten.  Nothing like that on Windows, it appears.
>
> That _was_ on Windows.
>
> In response to Danny's remark about the account the NTP daemon runs
> under: yes, you're right and I hadn't spotted that - but there are
> per-user and systemwide environment variables and this one was indeed
> set systemwide to %systemroot%/system32/drivers/etc/.rnd.
>
> Groetjes,
> Maarten Wiltink

As I should have written "Nothing like that on my Windows, it appears". 
But, yes, it's in the docs somewhere.

It begs the question: should the RANDFILE environment variable be 
something which Meinberg's installer defines, if it is not otherwise set?

Cheers,
David 


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