From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:31:51 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20090626194523.aff8f4db.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10abd50e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. Hope that helps, -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/