Posts Tagged ntpd
ntpd process on D-Link DNS-313
During the configuration of a D-Link DNS-313 which is basically a NAS (Network-Attached Storage), I got a serious but easy-to-fix problem. 🙂
In order to get access to the box by command line, I installed the Fonz fun_plug. I then wanted to automatically synchronise the internal time with some NTP Pool Time Servers. But, for some reason, the version of the ntpd
process provided with fun_plug is completely freezing the NAS. I wasn’t able to find the root cause of it, trust me, I tried everything I could think of!
Please also note that the same process is working perfectly fine on his brother, the D-Link DNS-323. As I said, I can’t explain why… 🙄
But there is a good news! The ntpd
process is actually part of the D-Link DNS-313 firmware. And it is working fine! 😀 After double-checking, this process is however NOT part of the D-Link DNS-323 firmware. Why is that? Maybe D-Link got complaints from DNS-313 users and fixed it? Who knows…
Anyway, in order to get the ntpd
process to work on the D-Link DNS-313, you need to replace the content of your ntpd
startup script (/ffp/start/ntpd.sh
) by the one below:
#!/ffp/bin/sh # PROVIDE: ntpd # REQUIRE: SERVERS # BEFORE: LOGIN . /ffp/etc/ffp.subr name="ntpd" command="/usr/sbin/ntpd" ntpd_flags="-f /ffp/etc/ntpd.conf" required_files="/ffp/etc/ntpd.conf" start_cmd="ntpd_start" ntpd_start() { # remove rtc and daylight cron jobs crontab -l | grep -vw '/usr/sbin/daylight' | grep -vw '/usr/sbin/rtc' | crontab - proc_start $command } run_rc_command "$1"