Bugs 26259 and 27426 are not fixed properly. This problem still occurs with ntp-4.2.0-r2. the ntp.dift file is written to /var/lib/ntp which has correct permission. However this file is only wriiten when ntpd exits, every hour ntpd attempts to write /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP and fails because /var/lib/misc is only writable by root. A workaound is to touch /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP chgrp ntp /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP chmod 664 /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP a better solution would be to modify ntpd so as to write ntp.drift.TEMP to the same location as ntp.drift ie /var/lib/ntp
what is your ntp.conf file ? setting driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift in my ntp.conf makes ntpd do what it's supposed to (write the temp file to /var/lib/ntp)
My /etc/ntp.conf # you should not need to modify the following paths logfile /var/log/ntpd.log driftfile /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift The lines above were unchanged from the original install, emerging the latest ntp does not install a new version so no changes show up when running etc-update. So OK if I change this line that fixes the problem, however it does pose another question. If my current /etc/ntp.conf is saying write the driftfile to /var/lib/misc why is it actually writing the file to /var/lib/ntp ? It would appear that the line in the config file is only being honoured by the ntp.drift.TEMP file.
it didnt, the ebuild did: dodir /var/lib/ntp fowners ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp touch ${D}/var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift fowners ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
*** Bug 51433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
