Not sure if this would do what you want, but I've used it with busybox setup.
http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/ On 22 Nov 2015 at 20:50, Isaac Dunham wrote: Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:50:29 -0800 From: Isaac Dunham <[email protected]> To: "Wei, Catherine" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: how to use ntp in busybox Copies to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 01:40:29AM +0000, Wei, Catherine wrote: > > Hi: > > In our system, we're considering if we could use ntp in busybox to > > replace the ntp supported by ntp.org, which has large footprint, so I'm > > doing some investigation about ntp in busybox recently but I met some > > problems. I found that there's only ntpd in busybox, no ntpdate and ntpq. > > In our current system, we have a ntp wrapper to control ntp > > behavior based on our requirement. We use ntpdate to sync time when > > system is started, and we use ntpq to monitor and control the ntpd > > behavior. For example: > > 1. After ntpdate synced time, use ntpq to enable ntp. > > 2. When we add our own ntp server to the server list, we will use > > something like this "ntpq -c "keyid id" -c "passwd pwd" -c ":config > > server 10.172.1.1 minpoll 3 maxpoll 4 burst" > > > > I don't know if there's some tools related to ntpq in busybox, so > > we can remove the current ntp in our system and use ntpd in busybox. > > Appreciate your quick response, thank you very much. > > > > Busybox ntp does not support any runtime configuration; ntpq corresponds > to unimplemented functionality. > > ntpdate is not provided, but equivalent behavior can be obtained with > ntpd -q -p PEER [-p PEER2 ...] > > OpenNTPD, from which Busybox ntpd came, provides an "ntpctl" command, > but it's misnamed: it only displays information from ntpd. > > You might get further looking at NTPsec. > > > HTH, > Isaac Dunham > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 37089233.578828 | SETI 68076311.344292 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 78981331.546694 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
