Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:51:22PM -0400, Brian Utterback wrote: >> While I am not adverse to having an ntp user and group, I have >> discussed this with a few people off and on, and there doesn't seem to >> be a consensus as to whether or not it is worth it. It will definitely >> make administration more difficult, because of the requirements placed >> on the key files. Also, in discussion with Nico just now, we agreed to >> have the pid for ntp written to /var/run, which will be more >> complicated if the daemon runs as anything other than root or daemon. >> Having a ntp user will definitely break the reading of existing keyfiles. > > I'd be happier if there were no ntp pid file though... In the world of > SMF PID files should generally be unnecessary (if signals are used as > IPC then pid files are tolerable).
In this case, I am just using the pid file as an indicator in /var/run that ntpd has already run. Nothing reads its contents, just its existence is tested in the startup method. -- blu "Mark my words, nanotechnology is going to be huge!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
