Hi,

in case this helps:

[...]
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  select(0x17,0xbfbfea0c,0,0,0xbfbfea2c)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   select 1
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  recvfrom(0x15,0x81406fc,0x444,0,0x81405e0,0xbfbfea3c)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 21 read 48 bytes
       "$\^C\a\M-l\0\0\fE\0\0\^U\M^G\M-C\M-X@\M-P\M-H\M-@\M-Gv\M-q`A\M^I\M-H\M-@\M-H\M-Y\M-+\^C\M-R\b\M-H\M-@\M-H\M-W\M^]~\
	\M-:\M-q\M-H\M-@\M-H\M-W\M^]\M^B\^A\M-M"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   recvfrom 48/0x30
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  recvfrom(0x15,0x8140194,0x444,0,0x8140078,0xbfbfea3c)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   recvfrom -1 errno 35 Resource temporarily unavailable
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  clock_gettime(0,0xbfbfe540)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   clock_gettime 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  setcontext(0xbfbfeb14)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   setcontext JUSTRETURN
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  __sigprocmask14(2,0xbfbfee38,0)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   __sigprocmask14 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  clock_gettime(0,0xbfbfec68)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   clock_gettime 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  clock_gettime(0,0xbfbfe7a8)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   clock_gettime 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  ioctl(4,CLOCKCTL_CLOCK_SETTIME,0xbfbfe4f4)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 wrote 8 bytes
       "\0\0\0\0(\M-e\M-?\M-?"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   ioctl -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  ioctl(4,_IOWR('C',0x2,0x8),0xbfbfe4f4)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 wrote 8 bytes
       " \M-e\M-?\M-?\0\0\0\0"
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 read 8 bytes
       " \M-e\M-?\M-?\0\0\0\0"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   ioctl 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  ioctl(4,CLOCKCTL_SETTIMEOFDAY,0xbfbfe4f4)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 wrote 8 bytes
       "\M-0\M-g\M-?\M-?\0\0\0\0"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   ioctl -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  issetugid
   570      1 ntpd     RET   issetugid 1
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  issetugid
   570      1 ntpd     RET   issetugid 1
[...]
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  sendto(3,0xbfbfd35c,0x44,0,0,0)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 3 wrote 68 bytes
       "<27>Sep 24 11:05:29 ntpd[570]: step-systime: Operation not permitted"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   sendto 68/0x44
[...]
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  sendto(3,0xbfbfd5dc,0x35,0,0,0)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 3 wrote 53 bytes
       "<29>Sep 24 11:05:29 ntpd[570]: time reset -2.053619 s"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   sendto 53/0x35
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  timer_gettime(3,0x81359d0)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   timer_gettime 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  timer_settime(3,0,0x81359d0,0)
   570      1 ntpd     RET   timer_settime 0
   570      1 ntpd     CALL  ioctl(4,CLOCKCTL_NTP_ADJTIME,0xbfbfe7b4)
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 wrote 8 bytes
       " O\^S\b\0L\M-(\M-;"
   570      1 ntpd     GIO   fd 4 read 8 bytes
       " O\^S\b\0L\M-(\M-;"
   570      1 ntpd     RET   ioctl 0
[...]

Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2006-09-23 20:51:10 +0200):
> Hi,
> 
> Frank Kardel --> current-users (2006-09-23 20:11:29 +0200):
> > you need to make sure /var/chroot/dev/clockctl  exists and is accessible 
> > to the user
> > ntpd is running under (usually user root group ntpd).
> 
> $ ps -axuww -p$(pgrep ntpd)
> USER PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ  RSS TTY STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> ntpd 596  0.0  0.4 1124 3652 ?   Ss    6:21PM 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntpd:ntpd -i /var/chroot/ntpd 
> 
> $ ls -l /var/chroot/ntpd/dev/clockctl
> crw-rw----  1 root  ntpd  89, 0 Sep 19 19:45 /var/chroot/ntpd/dev/clockctl
> 
> > Also make sure 
> > your kernel
> > supports pseudo-device   clockctl.
> 
> $ strings /netbsd | sed -n '/^_CFG_.*clockctl/p' | unvis
> _CFG_###> pseudo-device	clockctl		# user control of clock subsystem
> 
> BTW:
> 
> $ grep '^[^#]' /etc/ntp.conf
> pidfile		/var/run/ntpd.pid
> driftfile	/var/db/ntp.drift
> logconfig	-syncstatus
> server		time1
> server		time2
> 
> This machine is running ntpd for about a year, and I've not seen this
> `step-systime: Operation not permitted' message until I recently updated
> the system...


Regards, Jukka

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