Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024, 11:16 AM Ronald Klop <[email protected]> wrote:

> I created fakertc for my rpi4.
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> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fakertc/
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> Saves the time on shutdown and sets it back early at boot.
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> Plus I use ntpdate together with ntpd. Works fine.
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Curious why the root mod time isn't firing... it whould alrwady do that

Warner

Regards,
> Ronald
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> *Van:* bob prohaska <[email protected]>
> *Datum:* 7 juli 2024 18:01
> *Aan:* [email protected]
> *Onderwerp:* ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock
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> Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4.
> Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock
> being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within
> a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack
> of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called
> fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD?
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> In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated
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> Thanks for reading,
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> bob prohaska
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