Hello, On 2012-03-01 at 11:32 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > After update of ntp to 4.2.6.p5-4, I get the following log entries: > > Mar 1 09:55:50 archangel ntpd[1180]: frequency file > /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied > > Checking password and group, there is a ntp for each. Should the UIG:GID for > /var/lib/ntp be ntp:ntp? Up to version 4.2.6.p5-3 the ntpd process ran as root. No it runs as the "ntp" user. [1][2] The files created by ntpd back then are owned by root. But now they are unable to be accessed by the ntp user. A simple "chown -R ntp /var/lib/ntp" should do the trick. [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28704 [2]: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/ntp&id=735e96f2e5d4ce318525cc6ab1e51ee16e6fa27f
