What's magic about /tmp/? ntpd can't find UNIX socket

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:42:08 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> devel at ntpsec.org said:
> > Can you provide:
> > ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 580 Oct 19 11:00 /tmp  
> 
> Changing the owner to ntp didn't make any difference.

Nor would I expect it to.

> > And:
> >  ~ $ mount | fgrep /tmp tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs
> > (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3D20 97152k)   
> 
> tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64)

Notice the "nodev"?  

From "man chmod":

       nodev
           Do not interpret character or block special devices on the
           filesystem.

RGDS
GARY
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