On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:04, Mike Klinke wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 15:08, Bob Arendt wrote: > > When I upgraded, it appears that the ntp daemon (ntpd) now runs as > > user "ntp". My old /etc/ntp.conf referenced a /etc/ntp.drift file > > that ntp now couldn't write - ntp also wants to create a temp file in > > the driftfile directory. The new redhat scheme has the driftfile at > > /var/lib/ntp/drift, with the directory and file belonging to user > > ntp, group ntp. > > -Bob Arendt > > > > I added a bugzilla note for ntp/fedora earlier today: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110321 > > If you feel it worth your time and my description in bugzilla is > adequate enough please add your comments and perhaps we can get this > resolved to keep others from having to go through this same problem. > > What led you to check/discover the new user? > FYI ntp running under its own user is not new : [bhughes@tulfw1 bhughes]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) [bhughes@tulfw1 bhughes]$ ps axu|grep ntp ntp 3417 0.0 4.1 1884 1876 ? SL Aug04 0:58 ntpd -U ntp [bhughes@tulfw1 bhughes]$ rpm -q ntp --last ntp-4.1.1-1 Sat 18 Jan 2003 01:20:57 AM CST Bret
