NTPD errors

Clifford Snow glass-art at comcast.net
Sun May 30 15:12:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 04:47, Mike Chambers wrote:
> I keep getting this in my logs and can't figure out what the problem is.
> 
> May 29 11:30:31 scooby ntpd[1202]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP:
> Permission denied

> Here are the permissions..
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 May  3 08:16 ntp
> 
> The file does exist....
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   1 May  3 08:16 drift.TEMP
> 
> Permissions problem?
I believe that the drift file should be owned by ntp.  Verify that you
have ntp in /etc/passwd also check running process, ps -ef | grep ntpd
to verify that ntp owns the process.  Then change ownership of the drift
file.

-- 
Clifford Snow
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