Dave Hart <daveh...@gmail.com> writes: >On Sep 4, 1:55=A0pm, RedGrittyBrick wrote: >> >> RedHat 8 does have ntp-4.1.1a which is the latest RPM I can find for it. >> However this runs but has problems communicating with NTP servers. I've >> =A0 not been able to fathom why. Maybe I should revisit that.
>I wouldn't bother. That version came out in 2002 [1], any problems >are not going to garner a lot of interest from the developers of ntp >unless they also occur on the current ntp-stable (4.2.4p7) or recent >ntp-dev (4.2.5) as well. >> I would download the latest ntp.org source but my C skills are few and I >> thought there might be dependency issues on such an old OS. >> >> Any advice/suggestions welcome. >Now you're talking my language. You don't need to have any C skills >to use the ntp.org source tarballs. Grab 4.2.4p7 or 4.2.5p209 from >http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html, then: >tar xzf ntp*.gz >cd ntp* >./configure --with-lineeditlibs=3Dreadline >make Well, you had better make sure that you have a variety of developement packages installed. Eg, gcc, make, libc-devel, ... >You should then either: >sudo make install >-or- >su >make install >If you have any problems, we'll help you through them. The ntp.org >distribution works on some very ancient OSes, yours is still >relatively young by our standards :) >Cheers, >Dave Hart >[1] http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-4.1/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
