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FS#44214 - [ntp] Ownership on /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift.TEMP

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johannes Ernst (jernst) - Monday, 16 March 2015, 18:13 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 03:44 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

From journal:

ntpd[812]: frequency file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied

> ls -ald /var/lib/ntp/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42 Mar 16 11:08 /var/lib/ntp/

but it is run as: /usr/bin/ntpd -g -u ntp:ntp

Solution: chown ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp/
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 03:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 05:03 GMT
This is a local problem, the package installs it owned by the ntp user, and has for a long time.

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