Bug 104207 - Config file points to wrong drift file
Summary: Config file points to wrong drift file
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ntp
Version: 4.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-11 08:39 UTC by Göran Uddeborg
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-12-18 08:34:11 UTC
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Description Göran Uddeborg 2003-09-11 08:39:49 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Ntpd generates syslog messages like

Sep 11 09:49:01 schiphol ntpd[23791]: can't open /etc/ntp/data/drift.TEMP: No
such file or directory

There is no directory /etc/ntp/data in the ntp rpm.  There is a file
/var/lib/ntp/drift in the rpm, but it is not pointed to by the default config file.

I assume the default /etc/ntp.conf should contain

   driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ntp-4.1.2-3

This seems similar to bug 97754, but that was supposed to be fixed in release
1.rc3.3, and I still see the problem in release 3.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ntp
Comment 1 Steffen Mann 2003-12-17 16:18:11 UTC 
in /var/log/messages auf
ntpd[894]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP: Permission denied

correct this behaviour with:

chown -R ntp:ntp /etc/ntp
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2003-12-17 16:46:40 UTC 
no!
/etc/ntp.conf should contain
   driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
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