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

[Michael Campbell]

Have you tried "make install"?  That's a bit more common on these types of
things.
On Feb 16, 2012 12:57 AM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
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
>
>
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