From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: 24366@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file.
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:43:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160904204353.GA515@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160904202454.GA5108@jocasta.intra>
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:24:54PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> 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.
Hm, how do other distros avoid this problem?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 17:45 bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file John Darrington
2016-09-04 20:22 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-04 20:24 ` John Darrington
2016-09-04 20:43 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-04 21:12 ` John Darrington
2016-09-06 19:05 ` bug#24366: [PATCH] gnu: Use a directory owned by ntpd user for " John Darrington
2016-09-09 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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