On Sun, 27 May 2001, Emmanuel Amador wrote:
..
> On the advice of Linux guru Alex Ibrado, I downloaded xntpd3-5 and
> began using it a few days ago. He showed me how to set it up so that
> it runs ntpdate and setclock whenever I go online.
>
> Question: since the script is in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, do I have to be
> root to get it to run whenever i log on?
I have an alternative (IMAO better) solution for nonpersistent links. I
run a little cron job (owned by root) every X minutes (your choice). It
goes something like this:
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $ret = `/sbin/ifconfig`;
if ($ret =~ /ppp[0-9]/) {
system ("/opt/sbin/ntpdate clock.isc.org");
system ("/sbin/hwclock --systohc");
}
exit;
---
You can prolly do something similar, even add some Perl IO::Socket stuff
to check if the connection is actually up before running ntpdate. You
could also add a (Perl) signal handler to alarm on ntpdate if it's taking
too long (which happens when the connection is down).
--
Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.
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