[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#362715: ntp-server: ntpd tries to lock more memory than it is allowed to

Nicolas Raspail nicolas.raspail at whisperingvault.net
Sat Mar 3 13:50:52 CET 2007


Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote:
>> Package: ntp-server
>> Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see a lot of grsec messages in my logfile about ntpd and
>> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. For example :
>>
>> syslog:Apr 15 10:05:47 shadowland kernel: grsec: denied resource
>> overstep by requesting 4755456 for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK against limit 32768
>> for /usr/sbin/ntpd[ntpd:26236] uid/euid:115/115 gid/egid:115/115, parent
>> /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do you still see the problem with a 4.2.2 version?
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
Hello Kurt,

no I don't have the problem anymore with the 4.2.2 version. I have two 
servers running GRSEC + ntpd 4.2.2.p4+dfsg-1 and the two are working fine.

Thanks

Nicolas




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