[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#522696: ntp: silently fails to start on kfreebsd-i386

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:49:30AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:52:58PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Could you please try the package from:
> > http://people.debian.org/~kroeckx/ntp/
> 
> Goes further, but still no ntp[d] process around after starting via
> init.d script. Here's what's now in the syslog:
> 

The patch below makes ntpd works correctly as root. If still fails to work
when started with the -u argument, as dropping the priviledges is only
supported on Linux and NetBSD...

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -691,16 +691,19 @@
     ac_cv_var_override_hz=yes
     ;;
  *-*-freebsd*)
     ac_cv_var_override_hz=yes
     ;;
  *-*-sunos4*)
     ac_cv_var_override_hz=yes
     ;;
+ *-*-kfreebsd*)
+    ac_cv_var_override_hz=yes
+    ;;
 esac])
 case "$ac_cv_var_override_hz" in
  yes)
     AC_DEFINE(OVERRIDE_HZ, 1, [Do we need to override the system's idea of HZ?])
     ;;
 esac
 
 dnl AC_CACHE_CHECK(ut_host in struct utmp, ac_cv_func_ut_host_in_utmp,
@@ -1694,16 +1697,19 @@
 	ans=no
 	;;
      *-*-linux*)
 	ans=no
 	;;
      *-*-unicosmp*)
 	ans=no
 	;;
+     *-*-kfreebsd*)
+	ans=no
+	;;
     esac
     ;;
 esac
 ac_cv_var_signalled_io=$ans])
 case "$ac_cv_var_signalled_io" in
  yes) AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SIGNALED_IO, 1, [Can we use SIGIO for tcp and udp IO?]) ;;
 esac
 
@@ -1759,16 +1765,19 @@
 	ans=no
 	;;
      *-*-ultrix*)
         ans=no
         ;;
      *-*-unicosmp*)
         ans=no
         ;;
+     *-*-kfreebsd*)
+	ans=no
+	;;
      *) ans=yes
         ;;
     esac
     ;;
 esac
 ac_cv_var_use_udp_sigpoll=$ans])
 case "$ac_cv_var_use_udp_sigpoll" in
  yes) AC_DEFINE(USE_UDP_SIGPOLL, 1, [Can we use SIGPOLL for UDP?]) ;;
@@ -1810,16 +1819,19 @@
         ans=no
         ;;
      *-*-qnx*)
         ans=no
         ;;
      *-*-unicosmp*)
         ans=no
         ;;
+     *-*-kfreebsd*)
+	ans=no
+	;;
      *) ans=yes
         ;;
     esac
     ;;
 esac
 ac_cv_var_use_tty_sigpoll=$ans])
 case "$ac_cv_var_use_tty_sigpoll" in
  yes) AC_DEFINE(USE_TTY_SIGPOLL, 1, [Can we use SIGPOLL for tty IO?]) ;;

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