[arch-general] openntpd creating /usr/var/run/ntpd.sock

[Doug Newgard]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:12:49 -0700
Squall Lionheart <headmastersquall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running openntpd on several machines, one of which has /usr mounted as
> read only.  Openntpd wants to create it's socket file in /usr/var/run and
> can't, thus it fails to start.  I was unable to find a configuration option
> to change this location to /run, where it seems like it should be.
> 
> Is there a way to change this somewhere that I missed?  Or is this a bug
> that needs to be filed?
> 
> Thank you
> Squall
> 

Sounds like a bug to me. File a report in the Arch bug tracker, it probably
needs to set runstatedir during configure.

Doug