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| − | Network Time Protocol is a complex and often over-looked part of configuring systems, but without a trustworthy source of time data, all the logging in the world is essentially worthless. An [[NTP]] daemon, creatively named "ntpd", is available via ports, but unfortunately it's missing a patch for the broadcast client (refer to | + | Network Time Protocol is a complex and often over-looked part of configuring systems, but without a trustworthy source of time data, all the logging in the world is essentially worthless. An [[NTP]] daemon, creatively named "ntpd", is available via ports, but unfortunately it's missing a patch for the broadcast client (refer to [http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-questions/200408/msg02738.html this post]), so while [[ports]] or [[packages]] may be the easiest way to install it, you'll be installing a broken port or package. |
==Source Installation== | ==Source Installation== | ||
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While not particularly hard, you may not be used to installing stuff from source, so here's the crib notes: | While not particularly hard, you may not be used to installing stuff from source, so here's the crib notes: | ||
| − | 1. Go to | + | 1. Go to [http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads the ISC's NTP page] and download the latest source code for version 4.2.0 of NTP (anything dated after March 2003 has the fix) |
# fetch http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz | # fetch http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz | ||
2. Make a directory for it and untar and unzip the file in it: | 2. Make a directory for it and untar and unzip the file in it: | ||
Latest revision as of 17:45, 10 April 2006
Network Time Protocol is a complex and often over-looked part of configuring systems, but without a trustworthy source of time data, all the logging in the world is essentially worthless. An NTP daemon, creatively named "ntpd", is available via ports, but unfortunately it's missing a patch for the broadcast client (refer to this post), so while ports or packages may be the easiest way to install it, you'll be installing a broken port or package.
[edit] Source Installation
While not particularly hard, you may not be used to installing stuff from source, so here's the crib notes:
1. Go to the ISC's NTP page and download the latest source code for version 4.2.0 of NTP (anything dated after March 2003 has the fix)
# fetch http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz
2. Make a directory for it and untar and unzip the file in it:
# mkdir /usr/local/ntp # mv snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz /usr/local/ntp/ # gunzip sn*.tar.gz # tar xfv snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz
3. cd into the directory and do the standard install from source (configure, make, make install)
# cd snapshotsntp-4.2.0 # configure (lots of output) # make (a bunch more output) # make install
That's it, you're done with installing from source, what you need to do now is finish Configuring NTP and setup your system to auto-start it when booting (and your system to update itself via ntpdate).
