Could be my hardened system, but ntpdate/ntpd won't run, complaining about the inability to find libcap.so.1: #ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org ntpdate: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ntpdate pool.ntp.org 2. 3. Actual Results: ntpdate: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Expected Results: #ntpdate pool.ntp.org 25 Oct 22:26:41 ntpdate[16500]: step time server 66.250.45.2 offset -744.204275 sec libcap.2.11 is installed: # ls -lt libcap.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct 18 23:37 libcap.so -> libcap.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 18 23:37 libcap.so.2 -> libcap.so.2.11 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17636 Oct 18 23:37 libcap.so.2.11 and ln -s libcap.so libcap.so.1 fixes the problem. The ntp ebuild, however should be upgraded to use version 2 of the libcap library, or create this link for the user.
ntp does have a DEPEND on libcap. you need to re-emerge it since the SONAME changed.
