From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4kpX-0007mh-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:08:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12E571C034 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2181C0F0 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.199] (68-118-247-159.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [68.118.247.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: nixphoeni) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15D381B409A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D92902B.5000300@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:06:35 -0400 From: Joe Sapp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101222 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Getting network time early in boot X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b668255880e7d2ed4e3c27d543fd9356 Hi all, I've got a board with no RTC so there are some problems during boot. Currently there's a hack in the udev init script to get the time from the network (via ntp or rdate), but I'm wondering if somebody else has solved this in a better way. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe