Subject: Re: ntp port request
To: John C. Hayward <johnh@david.wheaton.edu>
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 13:58:53
> Dear NetBSDers,
>    I'm trying to get time syncronized on a lab of NetBSD machines
> together with some Ultrix machines which serve up NFS disk space for the
> NetBSD machines.  It appears that ntp (or xntp) do not exist in NetBSD-1.1
> or NetBSD-current as far as I could see.  I seemed to remember a
> discussion a while back that we should either drop timed in favor of ntp 
> or at least add ntp.
>   
>  Can someone who has ported ntp to NetBSD make available their port.
> I started into the port from some source found on the net from Duke which
> has too many problem for me at this time.

Simple procedure:

ftp louie.udel.edu
get ntp/xntp3.4y.tar.Z (or whatever)
mkdir ntp ; cd ntp ; tar xvzf ../xntp*Z
make Config.local.NO.clock
make
make install
vi /etc/ntp.conf
etc etc...

Works for me.

Regards,
-- 
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