Dave Hart wrote: > On Sep 4, 1:55 pm, 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 >> 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=readline > make > > 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 :) >
I downloaded, configured, made, installed and ran 4.2.4p7. Same problem. I changed the ntp.conf as Ronan suggested, restarted ntpd and all is well. I'm happy. Thanks Dave. -- RGB _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions