Setting the date manually using date works but get's lost with a reboot. How do use ntpd for time synchronization in OpenWrt?
shogun@l0calh0st:~$ date
Thu Jan 1 00:07:25 UTC 1970
shogun@l0calh0st:~$ cat /etc/config/timeserver
config timeserver
option hostname ptbtime1.ptb.de
# option interface wan
config timeserver
option hostname time-a.nist.gov
config timeserver
option hostname ntp.xs4all.nl
config timeserver
option hostname ptbtime2.ptb.de
config timeserver
option hostname time-b.nist.gov
shogun@l0calh0st:~$ cat /etc/init.d/sysntpd
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Copyright (C) 2011 OpenWrt.org
START=98
SERVICE_DAEMONIZE=1
SERVICE_WRITE_PID=1
SERVICE_PID_FILE=/var/run/sysntpd.pid
start() {
[ -x $PROG ] || return 1
local peers
getpeers() {
config_get peers "$1" server
}
config_load system
config_foreach getpeers timeserver
if [ -n "$peers" ]; then
local peer
local args="-n"
for peer in $peers; do
append args "-p $peer"
done
service_start /usr/sbin/ntpd $args
fi
}
stop() {
service_stop /usr/sbin/ntpd
}
shogun@l0calh0st:~$ sudo ntpd
BusyBox v1.19.3 (2011-11-26 15:20:28 GMT) multi-call binary.
Usage: ntpd [-dnqNwl] [-S PROG] [-p PEER]...
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