ntp solution ?

[Warren Sturm]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:25 -0900, gary wrote:
> After a fresh reinstall (fc4) I have gone through the archives a couple
> of times (theaimesgroup) rereading ntp posts, looking for the solution
> to getting ntp up and running. A solution that worked great for me (in
> the past) was to add a " -u " or a " -U "  on line 80 something of some
> obscure file. ( wish I'd recorded this one ). Does anyone recall the
> details of this fix ?
>                       --gary        
> 

There is a /etc/sysconfig/ntpd that contains:

# Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default.  Requires kernel >= 2.2.18.
OPTIONS="-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"