On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 21:53 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:18:24PM +0200, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> I'm currently using a cron script to touch a file every 10 minutes,
> and
> read that on bootup (before chronyd), and I've added a
> 'Requires=touchClock' to some systemd services.
I think you don't need the cron script. If you make the
(reasonable?)
assumption that files in /var/log are updated regularly then:
# find /var/log -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%Y %n' /var/log |
sort -nr | head -1
(You can omit the %n if you don't care about the actual file that is
the newest).
I think systemd systems are supposed to move to journald. Are there
still official /var/log files that are intended to remain over the next
few Fedora releases, and guaranteed to exist and updated?
I'm not convinced that depending on a wildcard file is robust long-
term. It sounds like a recipe for random failures.
I'm don't think depending on journald is right.
Journald starts on
initrd before the filesystem is mounted, and then moves the journal
after / is mounted; so it might be (not confirmed) that
/var/log/journal/ has a bad timestamp on boot.
Generally, I think your plan is a good one!
I can't claim credit. I got the idea from tedu (BSD). There are no
original ideas.
Would be good for my
CubieTruck too. How about trying to get it into systemd upstream?
I think we should. Especially since it already ships systemd-
timesyncd. How do we go about that?
Do I go on the systemd mailing list? OK, away we go...