Bug 97754 - ntpd can't open/etc/ntp/drift.TEMP
Summary: ntpd can't open/etc/ntp/drift.TEMP
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: ntp
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-20 13:23 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ntp-4.1.2-1.rc3.3
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Last Closed: 2003-06-27 10:18:40 UTC
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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.
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