Re: [chrony-dev] create_dir in util.c - permissions

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:44:19PM +1300, Bryan Christianson wrote:
> /var/run isn't really the problem because reboot does clean all that up. Its logdir, dumpdir and drigtfile that have problems and the non-privileged daemon is unable to update them. And the error is easily missed because its not a show stopper, just a warning message in the syslog. (I wondered why my graphs stopped updating after switching to non-privileged mode)

Yeah, I can see how can that be a problem and I occasionally hit it
too. Still, I'm not sure if it would be safe for chronyd to assume the
directories are its own and not shared with some other daemon for
instance.

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Miroslav Lichvar

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