On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:45 +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >Of the directory you mean? It is creating the file in the first place >that fails. > > ls -la /var/lib/ntp/ >total 24 >drwxr-xr-x 2 ntp ntp 4096 Mar 6 22:20 . >drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 22 17:38 .. >-rw-r--r-- 1 ntp ntp 7 Mar 6 22:20 drift Do you have ntpd configured to run as root or something?