Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 12:47:49 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Stuart Cardall <developer@it-offshore.co.uk>
Cc: alpine-aports@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-aports] [PATCH] main/sntpc: add cron / fix initd
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On Fri,  2 Sep 2016 15:22:46 +0000
Stuart Cardall <developer@it-offshore.co.uk> wrote:

> diff --git a/main/sntpc/sntpc.cron b/main/sntpc/sntpc.cron
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..13b18b5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/main/sntpc/sntpc.cron
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +# cron job for automatic ntp updates
> +sleep $(expr $RANDOM % 7200)
> +exec /etc/init.d/sntpc restart
> +
> diff --git a/main/sntpc/sntpc.initd b/main/sntpc/sntpc.initd
> index f22af44..35ef891 100644
> --- a/main/sntpc/sntpc.initd
> +++ b/main/sntpc/sntpc.initd
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ start() {
>  
>  stop() {
>  	ebegin "Stopping ${NAME}"
> -		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
> +		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --quiet \
>  			--exec ${DAEMON} 
>  	eend $?
>  }


I think this is wrong. You should run sntpc as daemon not as cronjob.

To update the clock every 5 mins:

  sntpc -i 600

-nc


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