From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file. Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20160904204353.GA515@jasmine> References: <20160904174547.GA3727@jocasta.intra> <20160904202209.GB32311@jasmine> <20160904202454.GA5108@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgeGt-0001pq-SC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:44:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgeGp-0001ga-Gr for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:44:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgeGo-0001gW-5k for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:44:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bgeGn-0004Ii-W2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:44:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160904202454.GA5108@jocasta.intra> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: John Darrington Cc: 24366@debbugs.gnu.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/messag= es like: > >=20 > > Sep 4 13:02:21 localhost ntpd[302]: frequency file /var/run/ntp.d= rift.TEMP: Permission denied > =20 > Can the user that runs ntpd write to that directory? >=20 > No. ntpd runs as its own user. /var/run is owned by root. > =20 > Is there a build time configuration that we should tweak? >=20 > Not that I'm aware of. Hm, how do other distros avoid this problem? --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXzIeJAAoJECZG+jC6yn8IKRgQALcLxlkjGOnoYyvlXFIA500t upqD4GDzSzs/OXV8OCLfWQ9MOBbjYfB4acxH9akR+tdxu4r6Y5uhuFRRrRJIo1Kb QKvZES839cH04P+tj/zpOkcjNK1xJvES4WN6Qup0IGzFimeABc8h4sOtvjscswg6 FL+Tg/hKRghoKv3OOhYTZG3ZRM+8IF82xcHABCZ2YDcbnZCr/0GahbLfr1Tv0VeS 4mkCa298KHI55uhn+PIhi6/IIWLF1IQKtYGqM41EbKUsHufFU4kYMiex+B/3KBsJ 0L+m6xITKOZJehCg3h+IF8D+kIr+wLhjyvGjhK+igEZNMLugQ0Jvd7dXRKiZdg32 lV1eVzq/l2tXvVyYe6zTR4nF+2A9+Ztduau/rCFZjWyoRNLM5p1t+/WLLetoB6IE mNME790g3kXQ7zboijhyPOzRVzm5wMPGdQtnKrpsS4RVJ+18QJluJap+Wl7xuLaw kNDq0i3+QAGFz4X2X8Lwfg6s8CukAtf//bknbFLhRxa88wTZx68/jrWVE40+ss/D Cb2O3/t2BZ2ud+6BZ9IrDgpMeRQmabtV9oHsSVTo8P42pz8IxBC0a4260WPHpSiz wy8PMQ1mP8UNo1nf91H+61LCMLb5JuTcN/aeBYiEaNGhUl3bV7Xbr0Zjg/OqKn3V /9McRVbfW8LwrancOZgi =2j7L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--