Tim: >> Hmm, I hadn't paid attention to that recently, but I don't see a >> drift file now that I've looked. There used to be one, when I was >> getting NTP up and running ages ago. Is there a preferred solution? >> (Ownership, permissions, etc.) james edwards: > owned by ntp, read/write for user ntp, no one else needs to read it. > > It has to be configed in ntp.conf: > > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift Finally got around to checking on this, and noticed something I missed before: It seems the default for FC is "driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift" and that does have the ntp:ntp ownership that I'd have expected. In some ways that makes sense (putting variable data somewhere in /var), but in others I'm not sure (is it really a "lib" sort of file?). The /etc/ntp* files and directory are all root:root owned, though. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
