Re: [chrony-dev] 1.24 ready?

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Bill Unruh wrote:


OK, I have compiled the latest version, and do not get the error reports below
anymore. No idea what was happening there.


> I am trying to figure out what the problem below is. I certainly get those 
> error
> messages below, but have no idea why I am getting them. certainly the 
> ownership of the .tmp file is identical to the chrony.drift
> file, and I am still getting all those error messages. I will do some more
> digging.
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>
> >  On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:57:41AM -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
> > >  One minor bug report-- the chown of the rtc and drift files leaves 
> > >  hundreds of
> > >  messages in syslog
> >
> >  I don't see it here, when running under root or chrony user.
> >
> > >  Jan 24 04:03:13 info chronyd[4328]: Could not change ownsership of drift 
> > >  file
> > >  /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift.tmp
> >
> >  Is this is with the git version? In reference.c there shouldn't be
> >  "ownsership". (I think this was the typo in the original patch you
> >  sent.)
> >
> > >  (I now have 13000 lines like this in my syslog of the last 5 days.)
> > >  This is with chronyd running as root, and what seems to be happening is 
> > >  that
> > >  the old and new files already have identical ownership and chown is
> > >  objecting to a "change" which is no change at all. I think we need
> > >  to check if the ownership needs changing and to only change it
> > >  if it needs changing. Also, if the system is running as chrony rather 
> > >  than as
> > >  root, to only try changing the group.
> >
> >  Chown should return zero here even when the owner stays the same.

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