From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 12:48:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C011E16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:48:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D65043D58 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:48:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jBCClv34010748; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:47:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id jBCClvYM010745; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:47:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:47:57 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Sten Spans In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20051212073852.F17429@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20051211105118.X17429@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20051211161558.Q17429@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.531, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.07, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The /etc/ntp/ directory. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:48:02 -0000 On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Sten Spans wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: >> >> So if ntpd is running as root because clock_settime(2) and friends require >> the effective user ID of the super-user, what is the functional purpose of >> this directory? > > None :) So, I guess it is safe to ask for its removal. Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */