openrc-discuss

Roy Marples wrote:
> You can replace the hwclock init script with the swclock init script which 
> sets the local time to the time when the system was shutdown. This avoids the 
> dependency recalc due to the invalid clock and you then run ntp to correctly 
> set the time.
>   

Sounds like an interesting idea... What is swclock - not on my 
openrc-0.4 system? (Aha, google comes up with some stuff, eg: 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/272073 - I guess it's in 0.5 only?)

An additional problem for this setup is that it will be unreliably 
connected to the internet and even then only over dialup, so ntp will 
not normally be available.  However, some kind of monotonically 
increasing clock is at least an improvement...  Actually I will 
hopefully be fitting cmos batteries to the final design, so this may be 
somewhat moot...

I also added the dependency calc script to the default (startup) level 
(as well as the shutdown level).  Can you see why this might be a 
problem? Any reason not to do it by default? (In my case I assume the 
user will always just pull the plug and so we will never run the 
shutdown scripts - it's a router basically...

Cheers

Ed W