Yo Mike! On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:35:13 -0400 Mike <bellyac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I opened a bug: > > > > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/issues/76 > > > Gary, > > I'm not seeing that once I set the ownership to nobody. > > mike@3142:/var/lib/ntp $ ls -al > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root 4096 Jun 7 18:13 . > drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Jun 4 22:51 .. > -rw------- 1 nobody nogroup 8 Jun 7 18:13 ntp.drift Ugh. ntpd should run as user ntp, not nobody. The trend used to be to have all daemons run as nobody, but then one currupted daemon running as nobody could control all the other daemons running as nobody. If the howto say to run as nobody it is bad. > mike@3142:/var/lib/ntp $ > > mike@3142:/var/lib/ntp $ ntpq --version > ntpd 0.9.4-44652aa Jun 5 2016 02:26:08 > > Ntpd writes the drift file and no errors are logged. Hal says the driftfile is not written on shutdown, so my tests are not valid. Or they point to a different sort of bug... RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588
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