Is there a way to determine if ntpd was built with enable-ntp-signd

mfoley · 01-16-2024, 11:46 AM

Subject line says it all: Is there a way to determine if ntpd was built with --enable-ntp-signd?

wpeckham · 01-16-2024, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfoley

Subject line says it all: Is there a way to determine if ntpd was built with --enable-ntp-signd?

If it is slackware, look at your build folder where you compiled the application. There should be config files containing the compile flags that were enabled.
If it was not turned on, you should be able to clean and reconfigure with that flag on and compile an enabled version.

If it is NOT Slackware, then it might help if you let us know what version of which distribution we are talking about. There ARE ways with other distributions, but your profile only lists Slackware.

mfoley · 01-16-2024, 05:23 PM

Yes, it's Slackware and I downloaded ntp-4.2.8p17 and built it, with --enable-ntp-signd. Looking in the build directory i have:

Code:

# grep enable-ntp-signd * 2>/dev/null
CommitLog:    fix for --enable-ntp-signd=/my/path
CommitLog:    fix for --enable-ntp-signd=/my/path
CommitLog:    Default --enable-wintime when --enable-ntp-signd
CommitLog:    Default --enable-wintime when --enable-ntp-signd
config.log:  $ ./configure --enable-ntp-signd --prefix=/usr/sbin
config.log:configure:37338: running /bin/sh ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/sbin'  '--enable-ntp-signd' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
config.out:configure: running /bin/sh ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/sbin'  '--enable-ntp-signd' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
config.status:ac_cs_config='--enable-ntp-signd --prefix=/usr/sbin'
config.status:  set X /bin/sh './configure'  '--enable-ntp-signd' '--prefix=/usr/sbin' $ac_configure_extra_args --no-create --no-recursion
configure:  --enable-ntp-signd      - Provide support for Samba's signing daemon,
configure:# Check whether --enable-ntp-signd was given.
configure.ac:   [--enable-ntp-signd],

Which indicates I did use --enable-ntp-signd. These files are dated 2024-01-05 13:xx and the ntpd I'm running is dated 2024-01-05 13:47, so I guess I am running with --elable-ntp-signd. I was kind of hoping there was an option to ntpd to list the build parameters like 'apachectl -M', but I guess there's nothing like that. One reason I was hoping for an option to list this was to determine whether or not I needed to download and build my own ntpd.