openrc-discuss

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:53:45 Ed W wrote:
> 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?)

yes, 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...

It should be added to the boot runlevel, and the hwclock init script removed 
from there.

Why the need to add a dependency calc script? Provided that the clock 
increases upwards and never backwards, openrc should detect changed configs and 
update dependency tree automatically.

Thanks

Roy