Frans Pop wrote: > - I just tried rdate on i386 and sparc64. On i386 it works fine, but on > sparc it fails with a "bus error". Does it work on other architectures. > especially arm?
Sure, it works on arm. rdate is pretty simple, it should work on all (maintained) arches. If you can find a server. I was a little bit suprised to note that none of my standard servers supported rdate anymore, because they're all running openbsd-inetd. I eventually found some servers that support rdate listed here: http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/rdate.html > - How are we going to ensure the time will also be correct on the > installed system? rdate does not write the time to the hardware clock. > For arm (at least nslu2), that is probably not an issue as that does > not save the time anyway, but for other (sub)arches we probably do want > to do that. The nslu2's kernel has supported its hardware clock for quite a while. If we used rdate in d-i, we'd also need to use hwclock --systohc. Maybe in a finish-install script? But we'd also need to use that if we used ntpdate or similar. -- see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
