Solaris NTPv3 package

Last update: May 4, 2022 17:05 UTC (dbea9b7d4)

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:42:03 +0100
Message-ID: <513.797686923@concurrent.co.uk>
From: Andy Chittenden 

Dave

Here is a uuencoded, compressed tar file. The only file I’ve changed is Makefile - I’ve included the full file rather than diffs. There are some new files as well:

xntp

Shell script that starts up ntp during boot up (the packaging stuff creates links to it so it comes up at run level 2). As with all svr4 start/stop scripts, it takes one parameter which is either start or stop. It assumes that ntp.conf is in /etc/inet/ntp.conf (where it should be on svr4 machines).

prototype

Describes the file contents of the package. You might like to review its contents to see whether you want to include any other files or remove some. NB: I’ve made the man pages go into 1m as they should on svr4.

preinstall

Runs before installation takes place. It ensures that ntp is down if it is up before installing a replacement package.

postinstall

Starts up ntp after package installation.

preremove

Brings down ntp before removing the package.

You create a package using make package. This creates a file called xntp.pkg. To install this package, you use pkgadd -d `pwd`/xntp.pkg xntp. This will start up ntp if /etc/inet/ntp.conf exists. If you don’t want the package anymore, use pkgrm xntp. I have tested this on Solaris 2.4.