On Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:53:24 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Some ports provide such trivial functionality that inet and xinetd do
> the work themselves, and TCP and UDP port 37 is one of those.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinetd gives some more detail, and its
> worked example is an RFC 868 time server; just what you want.
Ralph,
That appears to work beautifully ;-)
I have a couple more questions before I can finish the job:
1. I put the command into rc.local to ensure it executed at boot up, with a
30 second delay just before it to ensure that sumppi had started before it was
interrogated. So that future maintainers might have a clue what is going on I
put a message about the reason for the delay just before the if structure
containing the command. The trouble is that this message is not echoed to the
console during boot-up but it is if I run rc.local explicitly from the command
line. How do I get the message to show up in the boot messages.
2. I tried to put the command into an if structure to test to ensure that it
worked, eg
if [ "rdate -v 192.168.0.2" ]; then
exit 0
else
exit 1
fi
However, the command doesn't seem to execute. It does if I just put it in
without testing for the result. Is it possible to do this with this command?
BTW. Thanks for your help (again).
--
Terry Coles
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