New ntp install from tarball

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 22 December 2014 11:50:26 C de-Avillez did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 December 2014 11:58:17 Tom H did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> >> > I just installed ntp-4.2.8 in the default /usr/local prefix, and
> >> > adjusted the stuff in /etc/init.d/ntp, and in /etc/defaults/ntp,
> >> > and its working, but neither I nor my watch script seem to be
> >> > able to locate a "drift" or "ntp.drift" file that the default
> >> > 10.04.4 LTS version kept in the /var/lib/ntp subdir.
> >> 
> >> Check "{,/usr/local}/etc/ntp.drift".
> 
> There are two ways of specifying the drift file:
> 
> * the driftfile keyword in the NTP configuration;
> * the "-f <driftfile>" parameter to the NTP daemon, where <driftfile>
> is the full path to the drift file desired location.
> 
I have done this, in /etc/default/ntp.

> Drift files should be created automagically if they do not exist --
> but it takes some time for the file to be created. When NTPd starts
> (and absent a driftfile) it will start monitoring the time variances
> more intensively. Once it decides it has enough data about the drift,
> it will write a driftfile to the location specified in either of the
> two locations above, and slow down drift calculations. Usually this
> process takes from many minutes to one hour or so.
> 
> So... check your drift file location; verify it is owned by the userid
> running the daemon; wait a few hours.
> 
> This should be it.

I created, by touching, both of the potential filenames at the path 
specified in /etc/default/ntp, but discovered just now that I sill own 
them, so chowned them to ntp:ntp just now.  Likewise the parent "ntp" 
directory in /usr/local/lib.

Now we wait...

Thanks, C de-Avillez, this is stuff that simply is not important enough to 
make the man page.  And yet its quite important to verifying that it is 
indeed working.

Cheers & Have a merry Christmas, Gene Heskett
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