On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 21:09, Scott Foley wrote:
> I am running 7.3 and enabled ntp from the dateconfig GUI. 
> 
> I notice in the /var/log/ntp.log that I get hourly entries like
> this:
> 
> 22 Nov 20:59:42 ntpd[2198]: can't open /etc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission
> denied
> 

This looks like a config error to me assuming that the log message is
not a typo.  

ntpd runs as the ntp user and does not have write perms on the /etc/
directory.  It should be  using /etc/ntp for all its stuff.  If it is a
typo what is the perms on /etc/ntp ?

I have never seen this file so it must be temporary :)

this result of a google search on drift.TEMP  may be of some assistance:



http://www.scd.ucar.edu/nets/intro/staff/siemsen/tools/ntp.html

 By default, the /etc/init.d/ntpd startup script starts ntp with the -U
ntp command-line option, which causes ntpd to run as user "ntp". This
can cause /var/log/ntp.log to get messages like "can't open
/etc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied". To prevent this, do:
touch /etc/ntp.drift /etc/ntp.drift.TEMP
chown ntp /etc/ntp.drift /etc/ntp.drift.TEMP 

HTH

Bret



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