Alan wrote: > The Windows Event log shows an error, "Unable to initialize .rnd > file": > > Log Name: Application > Source: NTP > Date: 6/17/2008 7:57:31 PM > Event ID: 1 > Task Category: None > Level: Error > Keywords: Classic > User: N/A > Description: > Unable to initialize .rnd file > > Anybody know what this means on Vista? Thanks, Alan
Alan, I'm not sure about this, but I think the SSL package used in NTP tries to write a random number file to the root directory of the hard disk, and most likely Windows Vista in not allowing access. I don't /think/ that this would affect normal operation of NTP, unless you are using security functions (I'm sure other will correct me). I have commented on this bad behaviour before, but I don't know if it can or will be fixed. Checking on my own Vista system, I do see a file "C:\.rnd", which was created on 2007 Nov 23, probably about the first time NTP was run on that system. It shows as: Created: 23-Nov-2007 22:47 Modified: 22-Oct-2007 06:04 (UTC) Accessed: 23-Nov-2007 22:47 The owner is the Administrators group, and it is set for the Users group to have full control. It's possible that I made that change myself, but I can't be sure. Checking further, I see the same errors on my system, but they are all from lat year, suggesting that I did change permissions on that file. It's not impossible that I even copied that file from the XP system to the Vista system. On my XP system, I also have a C:\.rnd file: Created: 22-Oct-2007 07:04 Modified: 22-Oct-2007 07:04 (UTC + 1) Accessed: 18-Jun-2008 06:48 (about 30 minutes ago) So it would appear that the file /is/ being accessed on the XP system, but not on the Vista system. Although I can't see how, I wonder if this accounts for the poor timekeeping I am seeing on Vista? Sorry for the slightly lengthy reply, but I don't think I've found many others running NTP on Vista. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
