From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: The dhcpcd daemon writes an NTP configuration file when the DHCP server returns the NTP information. One of the parameters in this file is the ntp driftfile. However, the Red Hat patches to the NTP daemon (ntp-4.1.1-1.i386.rpm) change the path of this file from the default /etc/ntp.drift to /etc/ntp/drift. This change has been made only in the ntp sources, not in the dhcpcd sources. The change that should be made: in the file client.c, line 890: Change the string "driftfile /etc/ntp.drift\n" to: "driftfile /etc/ntp/drift\n" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dhcpcd-1.3.22pl1-7.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a network interface to use DHCP. 2. Start the network interface. 3. Check /etc/ntp.conf, and see that it says "driftfile /etc/ntp.drift" instead of "driftfile /etc/ntp/drift". Additional info:
Fixed in 3.0pl2-6.16 in Rawhide. Dan
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-566.html