Re: [chrony-dev] 1.24 ready?

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I though we had discussed that the place for the configuration files
should be in a directory /etc/chrony, and the chrony.rtc and chrony.drift
should go into /var/lib/chrony/.

The default for chrony.conf is still /etc/chrony.conf, and the documentation
(chrony.texi) still refers to chrony.keys, chrony.drift and chrony.rtc 
as all going into /etc.

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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