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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers DHCP Issue Possibly due to Hardware Clock? Post 303005101 by mrm5102 on Thursday 12th of October 2017 05:30:22 PM
Old 10-12-2017
Hey Guys, thanks again for the replies. Much appreciated!

All good ideas. I do have the ability to do any of those that you suggested, as I have access to the DHCP server(s) that we run. But, these little mini-PCs are located in each of our branch locations, and their local Router/Switches are running as their DHCP servers, so that would be a lot of editing I would need to do in each location in order to statically assign the IP Address. And occasionally I need them to ship the PC back as it runs off an SDCard and gets all screwy, so I need to re-image the SDCard. When this happens I usually ship them a new one before they ship back the current one, so the MAC Address changes from time to time.

I guess I could modify each CuBox PC to assign its own address statically, that's another good option...

The date/time thing on these little PCs is annoying though. Not only does it have the DHCP thing going on, all the log's timestamps are all screwy inside the log files, as well as their file's modification times. It's like every file was modified 7-8-2014 or whatever the current day's date is. When looking at the boot log file, or messages, etc... You can see at boot it shows "7-8-2014 00:xx" and then during the boot you see NTP start, (*and then the Network services) which corrects the time. Like this below:
Code:
2014-07-08T00:00:12.180148-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[515]: ntpd 4.2.6p5@1.2349-o Tue Jul 22 08:39:03 UTC 2014 (1)
2014-07-08T00:00:12.186116-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: proto: precision = 0.666 usec
2014-07-08T00:00:12.192294-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: ntp_io: estimated max descriptors: 1024, initial socket boundary: 16
2014-07-08T00:00:12.195052-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0 UDP 123
2014-07-08T00:00:12.208862-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntp[487]: Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)..done
2014-07-08T00:00:12.219279-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Network time protocol daemon (ntpd).
2014-07-08T00:00:12.221496-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: Starting System Time Synchronized.
2014-07-08T00:00:12.227680-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: Listen and drop on 1 v6wildcard :: UDP 123
2014-07-08T00:00:12.231513-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1 UDP 123
2014-07-08T00:00:12.239589-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: Listen normally on 3 lo ::1 UDP 123
2014-07-08T00:00:12.249842-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: peers refreshed
2014-07-08T00:00:12.252038-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ntpd[516]: Listening on routing socket on fd #20 for interface updates
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2014-07-08T00:00:22.035161-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
2014-07-08T00:00:22.122828-04:00 CuBox-PC2 dbus[405]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
2014-07-08T00:00:22.129075-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
2014-07-08T00:00:24.438413-04:00 CuBox-PC2 ModemManager[410]: <info>  Creating modem with plugin 'Generic' and '1' ports
2017-10-12T12:50:42.697027-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[670]: Time has been changed
2017-10-12T12:50:42.702891-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[640]: Time has been changed
2017-10-12T12:50:42.708762-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: Time has been changed
2017-10-12T12:50:42.959656-04:00 CuBox-PC2 systemd[1]: mgetty.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=20/n/a

I guess it's not really a huge problem, its just gotten very annoying. So maybe trying to get the date to write to a file and then write it back at boot-up (*maybe as soon as the shell starts) would kill a few birds with one stone...

Thanks Again,
Matt
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

oclock

oclock(1X)																oclock(1X)

NAME

       oclock - round X clock

SYNOPSIS

       oclock [-option...]

OPTIONS

       choose  a  different  color  for the both hands and the jewel of the clock choose a different color for the background.	choose a different
       color for the jewel on the clock.  choose a different color for the minute hand of the clock.  choose a different color for the	hour  hand
       of  the clock.  selects an appropriate level of backing store.  define the initial window geometry; see X(1X).  specify the display to use;
       see X(1X).  choose a different color for the window border.  choose a different width for the window border.  As the Clock  widget  changes
       its  border  around  quite a bit, this is most usefully set to zero.  causes the clock to use the Shape extension to create an oval window.
       This is the default unless the shapeWindow resource is set to false.  causes the clock to not reshape itself and ancestors to  exactly  fit
       the outline of the clock.  causes the clock to consist only of the jewel, the hands, and the border.

DESCRIPTION

       The oclock program simply displays the current time on an analog display.

COLORS

       If you would like your clock to be viewable in color, include the following in the #ifdef COLOR section you read with xrdb: *customization:
       -color

       This will cause oclock to pick up the colors in the app-defaults color customization file: <XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color.  Below
       are the default colors:

       Clock*Background: grey Clock*BorderColor: light blue Clock*hour: yellow Clock*jewel: yellow Clock*minute: yellow

SEE ALSO

       X(1X), X Toolkit documentation

AUTHOR

       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

																	oclock(1X)
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