Re: How to keep date/time accurate

From: Cobra (mtcobra_at_gmx.de)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:12:19 +0200

Created a file called gettime (or anything like that) in the /etc/init.d
folder with the following code in it. Activate gettime for runlevel 3 and 5
in the runlevel editor. Then the correct time will be set on startup. An
internet connection must be available at this time!
Don't if that's the best way to do it, but it works ;)

#! /bin/sh
#
# Author: Markus Thiel, 2002
#
# /etc/init.d/gettime
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: gettime
# Required-Start: network route nscd
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 3 5
# Description: corrects system time
### END INIT INFO

. /etc/rc.status

function error()
{
rc_status -v
exit 0
}

echo -n "getting accurate time"

ping -c 1 -w 10 217.5.113.240 > /dev/null || error

netdate 130.149.17.21 tcp 134.60.1.111 > /dev/null

rc_status -v

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