"David J Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alan wrote:
>> The Windows Event log shows an error, "Unable to initialize .rnd >> file": [...] > I'm not sure about this, but I think the SSL package used in NTP tries > to write a random number file to the root directory of the hard disk, > and most likely Windows Vista in not allowing access. ... I think that's exactly it. The location defaults to c:\ on Windows, which is a staggeringly bad default in my opinion, but at least it is configurable through an environment variable. On this machine, I have this: randfile=%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\.rnd which makes it use the same filename but in the Windows equivalent of Unix's /etc directory, mostly because ntp.conf lives there, too. A temp directory might be a better place and note that they might have deduced that from an environment variable as well. Something under an equivalent of the /var directory might be better still but I'm not sure what that would be. All Users/Application Data perhaps? Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
