Bug 97754

Summary:	ntpd can't open/etc/ntp/drift.TEMP
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Fixed In Version:	ntp-4.1.2-1.rc3.3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2003-06-20 13:23:39 UTC

I have ntp-4.1.2-1.rc3.2.  I keep seeing this in my syslog:

Jun 20 02:46:01 jik ntpd[635]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP: Permission denied

This makes sense, since ntpd is running as ntp/ntp and the directory is owned 
by root/root.

It looks like when opening the TEMP file fails it falls back on writing 
directly to /etc/ntp/drift, so all is not lost; still, if it wants to write to 
a TEMP file, then the RPM should probably be shipped with permissions that 
allow that.