#1608 PR merged: Add ntpdate support to rescue/default/430_prepare_timesync.sh…¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

N3WWN opened issue at 2017-11-29 21:22:¶

… and associated update to conf/default.conf

I have added the support for ntpdate in order to satisfy issue https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1598#issuecomment-347920758 .

Changes in /etc/inittab are not necessary since they appear to do nothing anyway. I checked the history of 430_prepare_timesync.sh and the entire file seems to have been added at once (as 43_prepare_timesync.sh) by @schlomo about 9 years ago ( https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/07c0385e931ffad1a79d7ea841a6d3f978f0bea9#diff-8fcb1c324ed3bff4cc3a656e0c1298d4 ).

ntpd successfully sets the time on both CentOS 6 (SysV) or CentOS 7 (systemd), but ntpd is not running as a daemon on either.

I think we can reasonably delete the following line, but I don't want to do that at this time as I feel it deserves its own PR: https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/d798fdb39bb6d0a111d4655283ad28d91286222e/usr/share/rear/rescue/default/430_prepare_timesync.sh#L7

gdha commented at 2017-11-30 06:45:¶

@N3WWN Thanks - just as I would have written it 👍

N3WWN commented at 2017-11-30 15:21:¶

Awesome! I'm glad I could help! I'll address adding chrony support and re-examine the inittab stuff in the next week or two, as I get opportunity.

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