On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > > >My question is; is there a way to use ntpdate or ntp to set the time on > >the box during the install? > > %pre could do it. > > >Sure I can do it in %post right before my tar part, but I wonder what > >this will do to the timestamps on all the files installed via RPM and > >various post sections of rpm installation. > > Files inside RPM packages have their own timestamps, which are > preserved; an .rpm is a glorified cpio archive. > > Files created/altered during [rpm] postinstall scripts would have > timestamps based on the system clock, which could be inaccurate. Other > than tidiness and order, I can't think of any reason that such files > would *need* to be accurately timestamped. Perhaps some of the derived > files like /etc/ld.so.cache and /etc/aliases.db... A problem occurs during/after install. Install runs with the wrong (for me) timezone setting, then first boot is done with the correct setting, Sendmail starts, runs make in /etc/mail and make finds files there with timezones in the future. > > >Where does anaconda get it's time from, the BIOS? > > I assume so. The system clock is the only time resource guaranteed to > be available. > > >And when rpms are installed in the sysimage/ area, does it also get > >it's time from the bios? > > Err, RPMs are installed *from* the sysimage area. The dates on the .rpm > files themselves is not significant. > > >Is there any way to adjust this prior to the rpms being installed, or > >should I even worry about it? > > Either create and make available ntpdate or rdate to the kickstart > client, or use the binaries already available from busybox (nc, date), > and do something is a %pre scripts. > > The full solution is left as an exercise for the interested reader. > > > Cheers, > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
