Bug 15222
| Summary: | missing file | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gerald Teschl <gt> |
| Component: | ntp | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-10-19 17:09:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Gerald Teschl
2000-08-03 11:56:33 UTC
The file is not missing, it's marked %ghost. There is no way that we can distribute the file, as the file contains the names of NTP servers that should be used to set the clock, and that is up to the system administrator, not Red Hat. (1) I don't know what "%gohst" really is supposed to do (and the rpm documentation dosn't really help). I don't understand what sense it makes to add a file to the database this way - will it be removed on extraction of the rpm? Such files should be tagged as "missingok"! (2) I could not find any reference to a file named "step-tickers" in the documentation. In addition, the file which contains the servers is ntp.conf! So if the file is nothing good for, remove it from the package. You should rather add the drift file /etc/ntp/drif as %ghost(missingok) The file /etc/ntp/step-tickers contains the name of one or more hosts to synchronize time form before starting ntpd. The only use is in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd. Marking a file %ghost is useful for files (like step-tickers) that are configured per machine. The content of the file is not in the package, but the ownershiip and permissions are. That permits "rpm -V" to be used to verify that the file has correct uid, gid, and permissions no matter what is in the file. Adding /etc/ntp/drift probably should be marked %config(missingok), we'll get there eventually. Fixed (/etc/ntp/drift marked with %ghost %config(missingok)) in ntp-4.0.99k-2. |