On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote:
> > ntp-client is in my "default" run level.  However, when I it runs
> > at boot time, I get this error message:
> >
> > 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root
> > privileges: Operation not permitted
> > 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished,
> > exiting
> >
> >
> > If I run it as root manually, it runs fine.
>
> Add nodroproot to your USE flags and remerge ntp

I will, but why does it work fine "from the command line"?

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