[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#410383: stats unlinking - permission denied

[Neil McGovern]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-1
Severity: normal


Hi there,

ntp-server is producing lots of odd lines in the syslog:
Feb 10 06:59:35 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20070210: Permission denied
Feb 10 07:00:39 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20070210: Permission denied
Feb 10 07:01:03 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/loopstats.20070210: Permission denied
Feb 10 07:01:03 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20070210: Permission denied
Feb 10 07:01:42 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20070210: Permission denied
Feb 10 07:01:44 cheddar ntpd[32025]: can't open /var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20070210: Permission denied

However, these files are read/write by the user ntp, as is the
directory.

Regards,
Neil
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.101       Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-2       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-4    SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-22      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                      4.27        Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                         5.8.8-7     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

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