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.

J'


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