Builds complaining about file timestamps.

[eno]

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$ ./configure --with-ssl
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock

How to set system clock? ntpclient not available for piCore 6 yet...

[Rich]

Hi eno
Try the  date  command. If you are running a GUI, see if there's a Control Panel icon and click on the  Date/Time  button.

[eno]

Im running a headless/keyboardless server so no GUI and very very minimal install - I only have openssh and cron running :-) so there are some system-level things I need to add/configure.

[eno]

Probably I need to set my timezone too :-)

[Rich]

Hi eno
In that case you want the date command. It's used to set the date and the time. Enter:

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date --helpfor more info.

[gerald_clark]

If you are building programs on an NFS mount you need to keep the times syncronized.  You really need a time server that all machines sync from.

[eno]

Does the Raspberry Pi hardware have a RTC that could be used at boot?

Im not using NFS but I should probably use ntp. The problem is its not available for piCore 6 yet:

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$ tce-load -wi ntp
Downloading: ntp.tcz
Connecting to repo.tinycorelinux.net (89.22.99.37:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
md5sum: ntp.tcz.md5.txt: No such file or directory
Error on ntp.tcz
$


Ill run date manually for now, thanks.

[Rich]

Hi eno
Maybe this thread is of some use:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17325.msg104180.html#msg104180

[bmarkus]

BusyBox ntpd applet is part of the base, it used to set time during startup. Also you can runt it as a daemon to keep time in sync.

[eno]

Preferred way to activate ntpd ?

[bmarkus]

Preferred way to activate ntpd ?

There are several options, so it is up to you. You can run it once to update system time as piCore is doing or you can run as a daemon:

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sudo ntpd -p pool.ntp.org
Of course you can define a different server or you can script it to use /etc/sysconfig/ntpserver.

[eno]

Thanks, I added ntpd to bootlocal.sh - easiest fastest simplest solution.