From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010803 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. 3. 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
This line: The file ntp.TEMP wasn't created by the installer. Should read The file drift.TEMP wasn't created....
fixed in 4.1.0-2
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52763 ***