On 03/01/2012 03:18 PM, Sebastian Schwarz wrote: > 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 > Jarek, Sebastian, Thank you! chowning the UID to ntp fixed it. That makes sense now, because on another x86_64 box that I have not yet upgraded I don't get the error: 16:54 nirvana:~> pacman -Q ntp ntp 4.2.6.p5-3 16:54 nirvana:~> l /var/lib/ntp total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Mar 1 16:00 ntp.drift Looks like it is set to ntp:ntp in 4.2.6.p5-5 now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
