Setting time on PogoPlug Mobile

[christianwaite]

Hey everyone
I've been setting up ArchLinuxArm on a PogoPlugMobile over the weekend, great nerdy fun, pretty much got everything I need setup apart from NFS, I'm stuck trying to set time/date. I've tried ntp etc but just can't seem to get it to work and I'm not sure where to go from here.

"hwclock --debug" gives me this:
hwclock from util-linux 2.21.2
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed: No such file or directory
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

I'm presuming I need to set HWClock bfore ntp can be set?
Any advice is much appreciated.
Apart from this, I'm loving a little headless archlinux server, perfect!
Christian

[sambul13]

What it says, you don't have hardware supported clock in your device (the one with battery we all used to have on a PC Mobo). Look at local Guides for some setup ideas. I also stumbled upon this issue.

[bodhi]

No hardware clock

- Install ntp
#pacman -S ntp

- Modify /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(!hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd ntpd)

Wait for a little bit after the system is up for ntp to work!

[christianwaite]

Ahh maybe it's my impatientness that has fouled me up then! I'll set it up again tonight and check it out tomorrow.
Thanks!
C

[moonman]

Just a little suggestion/modification to bodhi's post. Put ntpd first on the list of daemons so that it gets loaded first oterwise your timestamps in logs will be messed up at the beginning. $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'DAEMONS=(!hwclock ntpd syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd)')

[christianwaite]

Ok I removed anything else I tried (opentpd), simply "pacman -S ntp" added "ntpd" as the first entry of the deamons and my location at the top of "rc.conf" is set to "London".

I've rebooted and will check it out tomorrow and see if it's hooked up with the server.
Is there not a command to force it and also to check what the current time/date it is set too?

Thanks for the info, it's good to know that ntp is the right way to go and it's not necessary for HWCLOCK.
C

[moonman]

The command to check time is "date". To force it you can run "ntpdate 0.us.pool.ntp.org" or whatever ntp server is the closest to you.

[christianwaite]

Hmmm, ok so if I kill ntpd Daemon:
/etc/rc.d/ntpd stop

Run ntpdate with the uk pool (added these to rc.conf as well)
ntpdate 0.uk.pool.ntp.org

Output:
3 Sep 02:32:54 ntpdate[765]: adjust time server 82.219.4.30 offset -0.167242 sec

Running date then still doesn't return the correct time (08.35am):
Mon Sep 3 02:35:12 CDT 2012

The joy of Linux eh! When something as "simple" as setting time and date is a battle
C

[moonman]

Your time zone is wrong. CDT is -5 hours (+/- daylight saving?) from GMT. If you are in UK set Timezone to GMT or GB. (I assume GB stands for Great Britain )

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'nano /etc/rc.conf')

Either scroll down to timezone or CTRL+W and search for "Timezone"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'TIMEZONE="GB"')

You don't have to kill ntpd daemon.

[sambul13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('christianwaite', 'i')t's good to know that ntp is the right way to go and it's not necessary for HWCLOCK.