Thread: How can N900 sync time? GPS, NTP, and/or GSM?
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RobbH is offline RobbH
2010-02-28 , 21:13
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#16
Thanks to vinc17 and youxing for pointing the way to an effective workaround.

First, as root, I created a file, /usr/bin/ntpdstart, containing this:

Code:
#! /bin/sh
#
rootsh /etc/init.d/openntpd start
Make it executable:
chmod +x /usr/bin/ntpdstart

Now, invoking ntpdstart from the command line will start ntpd as a daemon, updating system time regularly.

The next step I found in another thread, and I don't remember who to credit. Again, as root, I creaed this file: /etc/event.d/startopenntpd:

Code:
description "Start ntpd"
start on started clock-daemon
console none
script
              /usr/bin/ntpdstart
end script
This file should NOT be executable. After a reboot, I had ntpd starting automatically on system startup, and it has worked great since.

As always, there are no guarantees that this will work for anyone else.