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From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Subject: bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file.
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:24:54 +0200
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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:
     >=20
     > Sep  4 13:02:21 localhost ntpd[302]: frequency file /var/run/ntp.dri=
ft.TEMP: Permission denied
    =20
     Can the user that runs ntpd write to that directory?

No.  ntpd runs as its own user.  /var/run is owned by root.
    =20
     Is there a build time configuration that we should tweak?

Not that I'm aware of.

J'


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