On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Martin Burnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please note that especially under Windows things may look different. The NTP > service first tries to open %windir%\ntp.conf, and, if that file does not > exist, %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\ntp.conf. > > The GUI installers provided by Meinberg override these settings with an etc\ > directory below the program installation path, by default \program > files\ntp\etc. The configured setting can be retrieved from the ImagePath > registry key of the NTP service registry entry.
On Windows, the isn't defined place for 3rd party service configuration files the All Users profile? If so, shouldn't ntpd use something like: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ntp\ntp.conf When you stick read-write files into %WINDIR% or %PROGRAMFILES%, you're braking conventions that enable forward and backward compatibility. Almost all of the software which was "broken" by Vista or Win 2008 ignored the MS-defined file placement rules (which I think have been documented since NT4 in the mid 1990s). Most software which "requires" admin rights on Windows is simply poorly written, and dumps temporary and config files into the wrong places. -- RPM _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
