[ale] need more help, install new NTP, outside of repository

[Leam Hall]

Ron,

Sorry I can't be of more help, but here are some thoughts.

When you compile from source you get to learn a lot. Enjoy the process! 
You'll have to configure NTP to start on it's own, the package manager 
did that for you when you installed from a package. There are lots of 
things package managers do and hiding the process is one of them.  :)

Also, clean out your your source tree and start over, keeping a log.

	make clean
	./configure > configure.log 2>&1
	make > make.log 2>&1
	install > install.log 2>&1

You get the picture. The configure and make logs may already exist, so 
look for files created at the timestamp when you ran those commands. 
Look for any errors in the logs.

Of course, you could also just "man install" and see that you forgot a 
few required phrases.   :)

Leam

On 02/16/2012 12:56 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for the help thus far on the script file mentioned in the "help
> please getting script file to work" thread.  I'm going to have to come
> back to that.  However, I've decided to upgrade my NTP package before
> doing more experiments.  The one in the Ubuntu repositories is almost 2
> years old.  I uninstalled NTP and NTPDATE using the Synaptic package
> manager in Ubuntu 11.04.  I downloaded the latest production NTP package
> from ntp.org and extracted it to a folder in my home directory.  I
> looked at the instructions here:
>
> file:///home/ron/NTP%204-2-6p5/html/build.html
>
> and found this paragraph:
>
> QUOTE ON -->
>
> The first thing to do is uncompress the distribution and extract the
> source tree. In the distribution base directory use the ./configure
> command to perform an automatic configuration procedure. This command
> inspects the hardware and software environment and configures the build
> process accordingly. Use the make command to compile and link the
> distribution and the install command to install the executables by
> default in /usr/local/bin.
>
> <-- QUOTE OFF
>
> I issued the ./confgure command, then the make command, and everything
> looked fine.  Then I issued the install command, and I get this error:
>
> ron at asus-k52f-1:~/NTP 4-2-6p5$ install
> install: missing file operand
> Try `install --help' for more information.
>
> Could someone tell me how to complete the NTP installation?  I know that
> I need to put the ntp.conf in /etc, but I don't know how to make NTPD
> start automatically on boot, unless the install process does this.  I
> know that, when I installed previously from the package manager, it did
> start automatically on boot.
>
> As always, any help is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>