Ever since installing the newest version of ntpd, I've noticed the hourly ntpd cron job generates a permission denied message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: 6 Aug 21:01:56 ntpd[31325]: running as uid(123)/gid(123) euid(123)/egid(123). 6 Aug 22:01:59 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 6 Aug 23:02:02 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 00:02:05 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 01:02:08 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 02:02:12 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 03:02:15 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 04:02:18 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 05:02:21 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 06:02:24 ntpd[31325]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 06:51:57 ntpd[31325]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 7 Aug 06:53:36 ntpd[3667]: running as uid(123)/gid(123) euid(123)/egid(123). 7 Aug 07:53:40 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 08:53:43 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 09:53:46 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 10:53:50 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 11:53:53 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 12:53:56 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 13:53:59 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 14:54:03 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 15:54:06 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 16:54:09 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 17:54:13 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 18:54:16 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 19:54:19 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 20:54:22 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 21:54:26 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 22:54:29 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 7 Aug 23:54:33 ntpd[3667]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 8 Aug 00:13:27 ntpd[3667]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 8 Aug 21:14:53 ntpd[3670]: running as uid(123)/gid(123) euid(123)/egid(123). 8 Aug 22:14:57 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 8 Aug 23:15:00 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 00:15:03 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 01:15:06 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 02:15:10 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 03:15:13 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 04:15:16 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 05:15:19 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 06:15:22 ntpd[3670]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied 9 Aug 06:46:52 ntpd[3670]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 9 Aug 06:48:32 ntpd[3671]: running as uid(123)/gid(123) euid(123)/egid(123). Expected Results: Right now, my computer's time is about 2 minutes ahead then my USGS radio derived time. Usually, they're in sync. BTW - the comments in the new /etc/conf.d/ntpd file don't seem to include instructions on where to get ntp server info. Doesn't the ntp process require knowing what server you want to poll for time? # Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/ntp/files/ntpd.confd,v 1.13 2003/08/06 07:42:24 vapier Exp $ # Options to pass to the ntpd process # Most people should leave this line alone ... # however, if you know what you're doing, feel free to tweak #NTPD_OPTS="-U ntp" NTPD_OPTS="-b -U ntp -V tock.jrc.us" Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test2-bk8 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl mozilla cdr mysql athena -motif" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
try: chown root:ntp misc chmod 775 misc
yeah, just change the owners to ntp:ntp on the drift file and you should be good ive added this to the ebuild: dodir /var/lib/misc touch ${D}/var/lib/misc/ntp.drift fowners ntp:ntp /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift
*** Bug 26501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
