Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 vs. real-time clock

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 July 2002 04:51 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Friday 05 July 2002 02:11 pm, Mailing Lists wrote:
> > I may try Gerald's
> > idea from today on NTP server.
> That will get the time after network starts up and before S40crond

put rdate on it.
wget http://www.cnunix.com/ftp/linux/rdate-1.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf  rdate-1.2.tar.gz
cd rdate-1.2
make
make install

put this file (ntp.auto) in /etc/cron.daily
#========== file ntp.auto ===========
# set my clock about 4:00 am
usr/sbin/rdate -s <your-ntp-server> && hwclock --systohc
#============= end ==============
chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/ntp.auto
cp /etc/cron.daily/ntp.auto etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto
This will reset your clock at 4:00 AM> If, when I get time. I'll take a look
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S37ntpauto
ln -sf /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K37ntpauto
chmod 700  /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpauto

This will run rdate just after the network initializes and before crond 
initializes

to use rdate from the command line issue
usr/sbin/rdate -p <your-ntp-server> 

OK, I tested thid out by changing the time 
and rebooting and it did correct the time

And it will correct before crond starts

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