[Buildroot] Best way to run ntpdate at startup

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Feb 14 10:43:04 UTC 2010


Hello Jim,

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:27:11 -0800 (PST)
Jim Thomas <jimthomasembedded at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Where should I configure NTPDATE=yes and NTPSERVERS=0.us.pool.ntp.org?
> 
> I could add this to the top of S49ntp, but is there some other
> startup config file that is intended for such options so S49ntp
> remains unaltered?
> 
> Is this done manually, or through Buildroot 'make menuconfig'?

The ntpd script reads /etc/default/ntpd, in which you can set NTPDATE,
NTPD and other variables.

Cheers,

Thomas
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