[arch-general] permission problem /var/lib/ntp after update (should it be ntp:ntp ?)

[David C. Rankin]

On 03/01/2012 03:18 PM, Sebastian Schwarz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2012-03-01 at 11:32 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>   After update of ntp to 4.2.6.p5-4, I get the following log entries:
>>
>> Mar  1 09:55:50 archangel ntpd[1180]: frequency file
>> /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied
>>
>>   Checking password and group, there is a ntp for each. Should the UIG:GID for
>> /var/lib/ntp be ntp:ntp?
> 
> Up to version 4.2.6.p5-3 the ntpd process ran as root.  No it
> runs as the "ntp" user. [1][2]  The files created by ntpd back
> then are owned by root.  But now they are unable to be accessed
> by the ntp user.  A simple "chown -R ntp /var/lib/ntp" should do
> the trick.
> 
> [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28704
> [2]: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/ntp&id=735e96f2e5d4ce318525cc6ab1e51ee16e6fa27f
> 

Jarek, Sebastian,

  Thank you! chowning the UID to ntp fixed it. That makes sense now, because on
another x86_64 box that I have not yet upgraded I don't get the error:

16:54 nirvana:~> pacman -Q ntp
ntp 4.2.6.p5-3
16:54 nirvana:~> l /var/lib/ntp
total 12
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    8 Mar  1 16:00 ntp.drift

  Looks like it is set to ntp:ntp in 4.2.6.p5-5 now.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.