On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 09/01/2015 12:14 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> How is system time set? Is ntpdate run after the network is ready? How
>> long
>> does it retry waiting for the network to be available?
>>
>> I have seen a number of challenges becuase the system time is bac at the
>> epoch start as there is no battery rtc. And I wonder how many armv7
>> boards
>> have a battery to maintain time across boots?
>>
>> Minimally, a process could right the time, in the proper format, to a
>> file,
>> say /etc/currenttime every 5 min and at shutdown.
>>
>> Then date can be run early in the boot process, piping this file in. It
>> would not be perfect and does not help, much for new installs, but better
>> than epoch start.
>>
>> Plus /etc/currenttime can be at least set to the image build date/time so
>> not even firstboot will be at epoch start.
>
> systemd v215+ has a nice feature to take care of this:
>
> systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service
What rpm provides this? I am not finding it...
Should be a default part of systemd..
Regards,
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Robert Nelson
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