[ntp:questions] Can anyone interpret these loopstats?

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Mon Nov 26 09:20:57 UTC 2007


"David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.not-this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk>
wrote in message news:5RI1j.52262$c_1.25697 at text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Maarten Wiltink wrote:

>> There's an environment variable 'RANDFILE' on my system with a likely-
>> looking path. OTOH, it may be for PuTTY.

> Thanks, Maarten.  Nothing like that on Windows, it appears.

That _was_ on Windows.

In response to Danny's remark about the account the NTP daemon runs
under: yes, you're right and I hadn't spotted that - but there are
per-user and systemwide environment variables and this one was indeed
set systemwide to %systemroot%/system32/drivers/etc/.rnd.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink





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