On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 02:13:47AM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote > > openrdate does not appear to be in the portage tree (it was removed on > 2019-09-17, specifically because of its dependency on automake 1.9). > I suppose you put it in a local overlay or something?
======================================================= [i660][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv openrdate These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "openrdate". ======================================================= That explains that. "net-misc/rdate-1.4-r4" shows up if I run emerge -pv rdate I have a local script that syncs my machine like so... [i660][waltdnes][~] cat bin/settime #!/bin/bash date /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/openrdate -n -s ca.pool.ntp.org /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/hwclock --systohc date ...with appropriate entries in /etc/sudoers.d The "-n" parameter says "Use SNTP (RFC 2030) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol." "-n" isn't mentioned in https://linux.die.net/man/1/rdate This brings up the question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
