bug#24366: ntpd cannot write to its drift file.

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 04:43:53PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
     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?

Well the obvious way would be to use a directory which is owned by the ntpd 
user.

J'



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