cfuttrup wrote: > The time update is still not working ... and it is quickly back to being > 6-7 minutes wrong. Probably something inside the Touch is updating time > in a very bad way. > > I modified the time-spec so it executes every hour. With something > inside the Touch providing bad clock, I need more frequent update. > > I tried to "chmod 700 root" ... so that the crontab is an executable - > it doesn't make a difference (this is not a shell script, but rather a > file that cron reads and executes). Unfortunately, as pgeorges has > concluded, the instructions are not executed. Time is not fixed. I can > run msntp manually ... but how many times a day do I want to do that? > > As pgeorges has noticed, there is no output file in /tmp either. > > I executed: > # ps axfww | grep cron > 1344 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep cron > > ... It seems cron is running. I just don't know how to make it set my > time. > > I'm not sure but I found this hint in a post on > debian-administration.org: A common cause with broken personal cron > entries is that the crontab file doesn't contain a newline at the end of > lines. > > ... I've added a new-line to the root crontab. I'll wait 40 minutes and > see what happens. > > /Claus > > P.S. I found in file /etc/services: > # Network services, Internet style > # > # Note that it is presently the policy of IANA to assign a single > well-known > # port number for both TCP and UDP; hence, officially ports have two > entries > # even if the protocol doesn't support UDP operations. > # > echo 7/tcp > echo 7/udp > telnet 23/tcp > daytime 13/tcp > daytime 13/udp > time 37/tcp timserver > time 37/udp timserver > ssh 22/tcp > ssh 22/udp > netperf 12865/tcp > > Can anybody explain what the timserver is doing / how it is working?
Sorry stupid Q You are running the Touch completely without a local LMS server ( on the internal server with attached HD) or mysqueezebox.com conection ? Just in case the usual mechanism it's gets it's time from kicks in , usually getting it from the LMS server ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98322 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
