Bug 363051 – net-misc/openntpd-3.9_p1-r3 doesn't seem to create NTPD_HOME path

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2011-04-11 08:25:49 UTC]

After upgrading from -r1:

djc@turing ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                       [ ok ]
 * Stopping ntpd ...                                                      [ ok ]
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/openntpd/chroot': No such file or directory
 * Starting ntpd ...
^C^C^C^CLost child: child exited
Terminating
 * Failed to start ntpd                                                   [ !! ]
 * ERROR:  ntpd caught an interrupt

[Comment 1 Peter Gantner (a.k.a. nephros) 2011-04-18 12:51:45 UTC]

Also, this path is settable via NTPD_HOME in /etc/conf.d/ntpd, but hardcoded in the init script.

doing this:

-        checkpath -d -o 0:0 /var/lib/openntpd/chroot
+        checkpath -d -o 0:0 ${NTPD_HOME}

should hopefully fix both.

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-04-26 16:37:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)

> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/openntpd/chroot': No such file or
> directory

I've seen that too but it seems to work anyway in the end.

[Comment 3 hal 2011-06-12 14:35:58 UTC]

I can confirm the solution in comment1 solves the problem on my system.

[Comment 4 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2011-06-13 07:20:57 UTC]

Yeah, the solution in comment 1 seems sane.

[Comment 5 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2011-08-13 15:39:26 UTC]

Fixed in openntpd-3.9_p1-r4.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2012-12-16 14:32:35 UTC]

*** Bug 432598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***