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 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
