Bug 53054

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Description of problem:
After the most recent release of Roswell updates, bringing ntp to
ntp-4.0.99mrc2-5, ntp generates errors hourly about a permission problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ntp-4.0.99mrc2-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade ntp-4.0.99mrc2-2 to ntp-4.0.99mrc2-5
2.
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Actual Results:  ntp restarts after the upgrade, having added a new user
and group to the system (ntp). The file ntp.TEMP wasn't created by the
installer.
Every hour, ntp attempts, and fails,to write to /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP
Creating that file with owner and group ntp and permissions of 755 or 775
doesn't solve the problem. There is also a log entry saying ntpd: logging
to file p. That seems odd as well. See below.

Expected Results:  ntp should have permission to write to the necessary files.

Additional info:

From the logs:

Sep  1 21:57:59 roswell ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Sep  1 21:57:59 roswell ntpd[4499]: ntpd 4.0.99m-rc2 Wed Aug 29 05:17:21
EDT 2001 (1)
Sep  1 21:58:00 roswell ntpd[4499]: precision = 7 usec
Sep  1 21:58:00 roswell ntpd[4499]: kernel time discipline status 0040
Sep  1 21:58:00 roswell ntpd[4499]: frequency initialized -236.105 from
/etc/ntp/drift

Sep  1 22:01:29 roswell ntpd[4499]: kernel time discipline status change 41
Sep  1 22:35:56 roswell ntpd: logging to file p
Sep  1 22:57:59 roswell ntpd[4499]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP:
Permission denied

These errors repeat hourly.

The output of ps aux shows a numeric uid for the ntpd process as well. I'd
expected it to show it as ntp, based on the command line.

[root@roswell etc]# ps aux | grep ntp
134767660 4499  0.0  1.9  2012 2004 ?        SL   Sep01   0:00 ntpd -U ntp
root     22957  0.0  0.5  1700  580 pts/0    S    16:11   0:00 grep ntp