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Dave at 02:09, 9 April 2006

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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 [[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==

While not particularly hard, you may not be used to installing stuff from source, so here's the crib notes:

# 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
# 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
# [[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

[[Category: FreeBSD for Servers]]
[[Category: Ports and Packages]]

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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 [[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.	+	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:
-. 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)
+. 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
 . Make a directory for it and untar and unzip the file in it:

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   # make install
-(stub article...more on autostarting NTPd and configuring...also make mention ntp etiquette)
+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).
 [[Category: FreeBSD for Servers]]
 [[Category: Ports and Packages]]

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   # gunzip sn*.tar.gz
   # tar xfv snapshotsntp-4.2.0.tar.gz
-. [[cd] into the directory and do the standard install from source (configure, make, make install)
+. [[cd]] into the directory and do the standard install from source (configure, make, make install)
   # cd snapshotsntp-4.2.0
   # configure