Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "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
Maarten, if I ever knew that, I had long since forgotten it! I've just added a system environment variable: RANDFILE=C:\Tools\NTP\etc\.rnd and restarted NTP. It has created the .rnd file where it was supposed to. Now to see if it makes any difference to the timekeeping.... http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/gemini_ntp.html It would be good to see something included with NTP (or their build of SSL) to conform to the OS conventions you mention. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
