On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:45 +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Of the directory you mean? It is creating the file in the first place
that fails.
ls -la /var/lib/ntp/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 ntp ntp 4096 Mar 6 22:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 22 17:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ntp ntp 7 Mar 6 22:20 drift
Do you have ntpd configured to run as root or something?