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On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 02:13:47AM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote |
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> openrdate does not appear to be in the portage tree (it was removed on |
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> 2019-09-17, specifically because of its dependency on automake 1.9). |
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> I suppose you put it in a local overlay or something? |
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[i660][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv openrdate |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "openrdate". |
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That explains that. "net-misc/rdate-1.4-r4" shows up if I run |
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emerge -pv rdate |
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I have a local script that syncs my machine like so... |
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[i660][waltdnes][~] cat bin/settime |
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#!/bin/bash |
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date |
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/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/openrdate -n -s ca.pool.ntp.org |
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/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/hwclock --systohc |
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date |
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...with appropriate entries in /etc/sudoers.d The "-n" parameter says |
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"Use SNTP (RFC 2030) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol." "-n" isn't |
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mentioned in https://linux.die.net/man/1/rdate This brings up the |
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question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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