ntpclient Openwrt Kamikaze 7.09

Notes taken while installing the ntpclient on a: 
# cat /etc/banner;cat /proc/cpuinfo  |egrep -i "hardw|proc"
  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 KAMIKAZE (7.09) -----------------------------------
  * 10 oz Vodka       Shake well with ice and strain
  * 10 oz Triple sec  mixture into 10 shot glasses.
  * 10 oz lime juice  Salute!
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Processor : XScale-IXP42x Family rev 2 (v5b)
Hardware : Linksys NSLU2


Set the Timezone, upon fighting uci and /etc/config/system for a while I ended up reading the init scripts and changed /etc/TZ 
# date
Tue Apr 23 15:54:54 UTC 2013
# echo 'EET-2EEST,M3.5.0/3,M10.5.0/4' > /etc/TZ
# date
Tue Apr 23 19:00:32 EEST 2013
That's for Athens, Greece

Install ntpclient 
# cd /usr/sbin/
# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7.09/packages/armeb/ntpclient_2003_194-4_armeb.ipk
# ipkg install ntpclient_2003_194-4_armeb.ipk
# rm ntpclient_2003_194-4_armeb.ipk


Set the clock 
# /usr/sbin/ntpclient -c 1 -h 10.21.241.4
41385 57983.683    9344.0    149.7      67.8 308441.2         0
# date
Tue Apr 23 19:06:26 EEST 2013
10.21.241.4 is a local timeserver

Configure ntpclient 
# cd /etc/config
# vi ntpclient
This is my /etc/config/ntpclient 
# cat ntpclient 
config ntpclient
 option hostname '10.21.241.4'
 option port '123'

config ntpclient
 option hostname '194.177.210.54'
 option port '123'


Make it stick 
# uci commit ntpclient
check if it did stick 
# /etc/init.d/network restart
# cat /etc/config/ntpclient 
config ntpclient
 option hostname '10.21.241.4'
 option port '123'

config ntpclient
 option hostname '194.177.210.54'
 option port '123'
hmm, I am not sure if that will do anything ... plan B

Enable cron 
# /etc/init.d/cron enable
# ps |grep crond
 2086 root        308 S   crond -c /etc/crontabs 
21136 root        300 S   grep crond 



# vi /etc/init.d/ntpclient
# cat /etc/init.d/ntpclient 
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/ntpclient -l -h 10.21.241.4 -c 1


Create the update clock cronjob 
# vi /etc/crontabs/ntpclient
# cat /etc/crontabs/ntpclient
# cat /etc/crontabs/ntpclient 
*/30 * * * * /etc/init.d/ntpclient


Restart cron-Install cronjob 
# killall crond
# /etc/init.d/cron start


References:
_ ntpclient _ openwrt
_ openwrt _ timezones




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