On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:29 AM, leo mayer <leo.ze...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running on Ubuntu 13.04 and I'm curious how the time-sync is working > behind the curtain. The reason for asking is sometimes after powering up the > BBB there is no network-connection available. Therefore it takes some > stored/saved (?) time from somewhere. So my questions are: > > 1) Can I launch the ntp-update after the boot when the network is ready? > i.e. don't execute before the network-connection is established. I guess I > have to configure some init-scripts, but I guess at well they should already > be there (from Ubuntu?). Since I don't wanna reinvent the wheel, I am > curious about some hints. For the Angstrom-distro I have already a working > config, but not for the Ubuntu.
ntpdate is installed by default, so if you have a network connection, it'll eventually update on it's own.. > > 2) Trying to track down the place from where the time/date is taken in case > of network-failure I couldn't figure it out. The above mentioned place > doesn't work, cause my date after launch is later then THAT /etc/timestamp. > So, it must be taken from somewhere else. Any hints? > a) The reason for asking is that I am curious if there is already a process > running which writes the time on regular basis in that file. I didn't find > anything in the crontab and guess I have to do it by myself. Anyway, as > mentioned above - I don't wanna reinvent the wheel and ask in advance - just > in case... Nope, nothing that advance. When i create the image i set /etc/timestamp with the current time.. So for end users it'll be at a most off by a few months, instead of 3 decades.. (in the ballpark) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
