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On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: |
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> On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: |
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> > > ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs |
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> > > at boot time, I get this error message: |
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> > > |
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> > > 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root |
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> > > privileges: Operation not permitted |
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> > > 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, |
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> > > exiting |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > If I run it as root manually, it runs fine. |
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> > |
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> > Add nodroproot to your USE flags and remerge ntp |
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> |
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> I will, but why does it work fine "from the command line"? |
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> |
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> > -- |
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> > Peter |
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> > ======================================================================== |
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> > Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.54. kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r5. |
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> > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+. gcc(GCC): 3.4.5. |
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> > KDE: 3.5.1. Qt: 3.3.4. |
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> > ======================================================================== |
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Hi, |
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Because when it wants to drop it's privileges from root to e.g. ntpd (user or |
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group) it can't - get's killed. |
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Usually permission problems or in this case it/ntpd can't access /proc to set |
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time (cap_set_proc()). |
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Just a sidenote, recently (a day ago) exchanged "ntp" for "openntpd" (from |
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OpenBSD) on a hardened router, because ntp wanted to lock too much memory |
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(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK - from 32K (default) -> ~8 MB) and other minor issues. |
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HTH.Rumen |
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