With these changes: * NTP is run at boot time, once, to set the system clock. This allows the rest of the boot to continue as soon as time is set, which should happen as soon as there is networking. This is necessary because there's parts of the system that need to wait for the system clock to be set. * NTP is then also started as a daemon, which runs continuously, until stopped by the user, to keep system clock synchronised. The two systemd units need to be separate, otherwise we can't have network.target depend on a unit that finishes quickly: the daemon unit doesn't exit until there's an error. --- busybox.morph | 17 +++++++++++++---- scripts/ntpd-set.sh | 31 ------------------------------- scripts/run-ntpd-with-config | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ systemd-units/ntpd-boot.service.in | 10 ++++++++++ systemd-units/ntpd.service.in | 10 ++++++---- 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) delete mode 100755 scripts/ntpd-set.sh create mode 100755 scripts/run-ntpd-with-config create mode 100644 systemd-units/ntpd-boot.service.in diff --git a/busybox.morph b/busybox.morph index 188edf4..ad40f5b 100644 --- a/busybox.morph +++ b/busybox.morph @@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ configure-commands: build-commands: - make - | - for f in ifup@.service ntpd.service crond.service; do - sed -e 's|@rootprefix@||g' "systemd-units/$f.in" >"systemd-units/$f"; + for fin in systemd-units/*.in + do + f=$(echo "$fin" | sed 's/\.in$//') + sed -e 's|@rootprefix@||g' "$fin" >"$f"; done install-commands: @@ -91,5 +93,12 @@ install-commands: - cp examples/udhcp/simple.script "$DESTDIR$PREFIX"/share/udhcpc/default.script # Set up NTP - - cp scripts/ntpd-set.sh "$DESTDIR$PREFIX"/bin/ntpd-set.sh - - chmod 6755 "$DESTDIR$PREFIX"/bin/ntpd-set.sh + - install scripts/run-ntpd-with-config "$DESTDIR$PREFIX"/bin/. + - install -d "$DESTDIR/etc" + - | + cat << EOF > "$DESTDIR/etc/ntpd.conf" + server 0.pool.ntp.org + server 1.pool.ntp.org + server 2.pool.ntp.org + server 3.pool.ntp.org + EOF diff --git a/scripts/ntpd-set.sh b/scripts/ntpd-set.sh deleted file mode 100755 index d6fd8f2..0000000 --- a/scripts/ntpd-set.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -max_attempts=4 - -# This script takes a list of ntp servers and passes them to ntpd to set the -# system time. If a /etc/ntpd.conf file exists, the servers there are used, -# if not, some default values are passed -set_time() { - # -q flag makes ntpd exit after setting the time once - ntpd -q -n -p "$1" -} - -check_time() { - for attempt in $(seq "$max_attempts"); do - for arg ; do - echo $arg - if set_time "$arg" ; then - return 0 - fi - done - sleep 2 - done - return 1 -} - -if [ -f /etc/ntpd.conf ]; then - server_list=`cat /etc/ntpd.conf | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g;s/server//g'` - check_time $server_list -else - # Use a default list if there's no config - check_time 0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org -fi diff --git a/scripts/run-ntpd-with-config b/scripts/run-ntpd-with-config new file mode 100755 index 0000000..8b5ba8a --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/run-ntpd-with-config @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +# Invoke the Busybox ntpd with servers listed in /etc/ntpd.conf, if it +# exists. The servers should be listed one per line, with the first +# word in the line being "server". Any lines that don't start with +# "server" as the first word are ignored. The server name should be +# the second word. Anything else on the line is ignored. +# +# If the config file does not exist, no default servers are used. + +set -eu + +parse_servers() +{ + awk '$1 == "server" { for (i=2; i <= NF; ++i) print "-p", $i }' "$1" +} + +if [ -e /etc/ntpd.conf ] +then + ntpd $(parse_servers /etc/ntpd.conf) "$@" +else + ntpd "$@" +fi diff --git a/systemd-units/ntpd-boot.service.in b/systemd-units/ntpd-boot.service.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48b3cf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/systemd-units/ntpd-boot.service.in @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[Unit] +Description=Set clock at boot with NTP +Before=network.target +Before=ntpd.service + +[Service] +Type=oneshot +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -n -q -p 0.pool.ntp.org +Restart=on-failure +RestartSec=15 diff --git a/systemd-units/ntpd.service.in b/systemd-units/ntpd.service.in index 96ce5ac..2ec35da 100644 --- a/systemd-units/ntpd.service.in +++ b/systemd-units/ntpd.service.in @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ [Unit] -Description=Network Time Protocol client +Description=Keep clock synchronised with NTP Before=network.target +After=ntpd-boot.service [Service] -Type=oneshot -ExecStart=/usr/bin/ntpd-set.sh -RemainAfterExit=true +Type=simple +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -n -p 0.pool.ntp.org +Restart=on-failure +RestartSec=15 -- 1.7.10.4