Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working?

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:31:51 GMT
Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:

> On 06/27/2009 12:16 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> > I'm running plan 9 in qemu, I want to use the qemu-emulated hardware clock for the plan 9 time because it keeps the same time as the host.
> >
> > I made a script to be sourced from cpurc:
> >
> > 	#!/bin/rc
> >
> > 	echo '> starting timesync'
> >
> > 	if (! test -e '/dev/rtc')
> > 		bind -a '#r' /dev
> > 	aux/timesync -r
> >
> > The script runs at boot, the echo tells me that much, but the time is not set, perhaps as if timesync -r is not working. To be specific the date a few minutes after booting is Sun Jan  2 18:30:36 GMT 2000.
> >
> > Should I not use timesync at all? I ask because $boottime (which is set before timesync is started) contains a reasonable date.
>
>
> I also run Plan 9 in qemu, the:
>
> 	aux/timesync -n pool.ntp.org
>
> solved a similar problem here.

ty. That's what was in my cpurc, I don't know whether as a default or from tinkering with it a few years ago. I didn't want to load ntp.org with multiple requests from the same machine.


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Ethan Grammatikidis
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