NTPD errors

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Sun May 30 18:13:08 UTC 2004


Mike Chambers wrote:
> I keep getting this in my logs and can't figure out what the problem is.
> 
> May 29 11:30:31 scooby ntpd[1202]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP:
> Permission denied
> 
> Here are the permissions..
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 May  3 08:16 ntp
> 
> The file does exist....
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   1 May  3 08:16 drift.TEMP
> 
> Permissions problem?
> 

This is probably not the right answer, but I got rid of those messages 
by changing the permissions on the drift.TEMP file to rw-rw-rw-.

Andrew Robinson





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