Help with (open)ntpd - Time not set after reboot

[grayman4hire]

Hello,

I just noticed that the time on my Pogoplug isn't set after a reboot.

manually running "ntpd -s" works.

Any ideas? Thanks

gray


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[root@vader ~]# date
Wed Dec 31 16:04:31 PST 1969
[root@vader ~]# date
Wed Dec 31 17:27:18 PST 1969
[root@vader ~]# systemctl status openntpd
openntpd.service - OpenNTP Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openntpd.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 1969-12-31 16:00:37 PST; 1h 26min ago
Process: 112 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -s (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/openntpd.service
ââ119 /usr/sbin/ntpd -s
ââ251 /usr/sbin/ntpd -s

Dec 31 16:00:37 vader systemd[1]: Started OpenNTP Daemon.
[root@vader ~]# ntpd -s
[root@vader ~]# date
Fri May 17 13:29:46 PDT 2013
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[Geoff]

You'll have that problem if ntpd tries to reach a time server before the network is up and DNS is accessible. If you have any other Linux boxes with static IP addresses on your LAN, you can set them up to serve time and add them to the list that ntpd tries.

[grayman4hire]

Thanks for the response Geoff. I figure it was something like that. However, doesn't the systemd service file wait for the network to start first?
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[Unit]
Description=OpenNTP Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target')

Any recommendation on delaying the start of the service?

[pepedog]

I would switch to netctl, and ntpd. Install ifplugd too
Copy the required example from /etc/netctl/examples/ to /etc/netctl/
Enable with
systemctl enable netctl-ifplugd@eth0
Put in iburst as per here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntpd

[grayman4hire]

I'm actually already using netct and ifplugdl. I'll give ntpd a try.

[etan]

wiki says about /etc/ntp.conf
i have /etc/ntpd.conf from default installation.
did you mean openntpd ?

I once wanted to try reconfigure openntpd like Geoff described but to serve time to dd-wrt router but its ntp client does not work openntpd.
Anybody knows ntp servers that dd-wrt "likes" ?

[grayman4hire]

Switched to NTP (versus openntpd) and time is syncing now. Thanks.

@etan, why even bother to run a local ntp server? What's wrong with the default Internet ntp servers?

[etan]

why not ?
in case of dd-wrt there seems a lot of vulnerabilities, on their forums there are sometimes people complaining about spontaneous reboots. Could be ntp one of them ?

[grayman4hire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hy not ?

[etan]

and so there is no reason not to.
obviously problem is not intended for you so please let more skilled people to answer.