On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04:05AM +0100, Tomalak Geret'kal wrote: > It seems odd that chrony fails to open /var/run/chrony.pid and fails > to adjtimex(), presumably both through permissions errors (though > this is only made clear-ish for the latter). There is *only* a root > user on the device, and no selinux or anything of that ilk. The > intermittent nature of the fault does not involve a change in user > context. Still a race condition?
I'm not sure. In the 2.6.21 kernel's adjtimex code there seems to be only one place returning EPERM a that's a check for the CAP_SYS_TIME capability which root should always have (IIRC filesystem capabilities were not supported yet). Any chance the binary could have the suid bit set? -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email listmas...@chrony.tuxfamily.org.
