Package: fake-hwclock
Version: 0.8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Any configuration settings added to /etc/default/fake-hwclock are not utilised
by the primary fake-hwclock script.
The problem appears to be two-fold. Firstly, the environment variable present
in the parameter file are loaded but not passed to the fake-hwclock script by
the /etc/init.d script,
as the "bin" script is not called with "source" (or "."). Secondly, the
fake-hwclock "binary" call made by cron.hourly does not call the parameter file
at all.
We've solved this issue by moving the parameter file call from the init.d
script into the "binary" script.
We discovered this issue whilst attempting to use a data file other than
/etc/fake-hwclock.data (and yes, we've read bug #782314 and note the
recommendations against doing so).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.11-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fake-hwclock depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.18~bpo70+1
fake-hwclock recommends no packages.
Versions of packages fake-hwclock suggests:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-124
ii ntp 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2+deb7u3
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/fake-hwclock changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/fake-hwclock changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--- etc/init.d/fake-hwclock.orig 2016-08-11 07:57:12.000000000 +1000
+++ etc/init.d/fake-hwclock 2016-08-11 07:20:04.000000000 +1000
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ set -e
# Include core init functions if needed
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
-PARAM=/etc/default/fake-hwclock
-if [ -f $PARAM ]; then
- . "$PARAM"
-fi
-
case "${1:-}" in
stop|reload|restart|force-reload)
echo "Stopping fake hwclock: saving system time."
--- sbin/fake-hwclock.orig 2016-08-11 07:56:28.000000000 +1000
+++ sbin/fake-hwclock 2016-08-11 07:19:37.000000000 +1000
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
#
# License: GPLv2, see COPYING
+PARAM=/etc/default/fake-hwclock
+if [ -f $PARAM ]; then
+ . "$PARAM"
+fi
+
if [ "$FILE"x = ""x ] ; then
FILE=/etc/fake-hwclock.data
fi
