Bug 78946

Summary:	ntpd fails with default config because ntp group not created by install
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin <martin>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin 2005-01-21 06:26:14 UTC

net-misc/ntp package installs the ntpd program. This has the following config file /etc/conf.d/ntpd:
NTPD_OPTS="-u ntp:ntp"

This causes ntpd to fail as the group 'ntp' is not created by the installation process.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install ntpd
2.Try to run it.
3.

Actual Results:  
It fails to run under this user context.

Expected Results:  
It should have created the ntp group, correcting the problem.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-21 08:56:24 UTC

ebuild installs user/group