I've installed 7.07 on a motorola 850g, it's going to be used as an openvpn server.

I used ipkg to install ntpclient.

If I let the box pick up a dhcp address for it's wan interface then ntpclient sets the date properly.

If I assign a static ip address to the wan interface in /etc/config/network, then the date is not set.  Creating an /etc/init.d/ntpclient and using /etc/init.d/ntpclient enable to build links into /etc/rc.d makes things work right.

I'm guessing that using a static ip address doesn't generate the necessary hotplug events to call /etc/hotplug.d/iface/20-ntpclient.  Is using the init.d script the Right Thing To Do?

Thanks,
g.

yeah, I found the same in 7.09. I think the hotplug script is to make the ntpclient to set the date when interface status changes. I also wirte the init.d script as a workaround solution, but i am thinking the crontabs maybe a better way. Here is the init.d/ntpclient script for 7.09

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
#Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org
START=55

ntpclient_config() {
        local cfg="$1"
        config_get hostname     $cfg hostname
        config_get port         $cfg port
        config_get count        $cfg count

        ps | grep 'bin/[n]tpclient' >&- || {
                route -n 2>&- | grep '^0.0.0.0' >&- && {
                        /usr/sbin/ntpclient -c ${count:-1} -s -h $hostname -p ${port:-123} 2>&- >&-
                }
        }
}

start () {
        config_load ntpclient
        config_foreach ntpclient_config ntpclient
}

stop() {
        route -n 2>&- | grep '^0.0.0.0' >&- || killall ntpclient 2>&- >&-
}