Auto-setting Time

Mon, 04 Jul 2016 17:21:45 +0000

Every time Genera boots, it asks for the time. However, Genera clearly uses the RFC 868 Time Protocol. So, I thought I’d try to make my local Linux server (named HELIUM in our namespace) serve it up.

This is handled by the openbsd-inetd package in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This can be enabled by editing /etc/inetd.conf and adding two lines:

linux:~# fgrep time /etc/inetd.conf 
#daytime		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
# Port 37 time protocol for Symbolics computers
time		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
time		dgram	udp	wait	root	internal

You can reload the inetd server but it’s just as easy to do a shutdown -r now.

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Auto-setting Time