Bug 156620

Summary:	Permissions are incorrect on /etc/ntp
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Joshua Weage <weage98>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Petr Raszyk <praszyk>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	tz
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Description Joshua Weage 2005-05-02 15:59:39 UTC

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Description of problem:
ntpd produces the following error in /var/log/messages:

can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP: Permission denied

The default /etc/sysconfig/ntpd config runs ntpd as the ntp user, which is fine.  However, the ntpd user cannot write to /etc/ntp by default, so ntpd is unable to create the drift file.

The solution is to change the permissions on /etc/ntp to ntp:root and chmod 775.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.1.2-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enable ntpd
2.  See error about drift.TEMP in syslog
3.
  

Expected Results:  No error messages.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Torkil Zachariassen 2005-10-19 15:39:28 UTC

The manual says the drift file should be in /var/lib/ntp, which is owned by
ntp.ntp mode 755.

Perhaps a line like
  driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
is required in
  /etc/ntp.conf

Comment 2 Petr Raszyk 2005-10-24 08:17:10 UTC

To comment #1

Thanks .
ntp.conf:
#
# Drift file.  Put this in a directory which the daemon can write to.
# No symbolic links allowed, either, since the daemon updates the file
# by creating a temporary in the same directory and then rename()'ing
# it to the file.
#
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
broadcastdelay  0.008