Re: [MiNT] Network and time program questions.

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

there is also an command line time-server sync on an EasyMiNT install,
I think there is reference to it in either mint.cnf or /etc/init.rc
(cant check atm)

Paul

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:09 AM, m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
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> Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 18:53 +0100 schrieb Christos Tziotzis
> <ctziotzis@gmail.com>:
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>> First of all I was wondering if there was a program that could
>> connect to a time server and set the date and time on my falcon (with
>> dead nvram battery).
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>
> Hello,
>
> I once wrote a small tool for that:
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> http://nic-nac-project.org/~monokrom/monochrom.net/atari/dl/timec1_3.zip
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> You will need the tool "keeptime" when used with an empty battery, it's
> within the zip file.
>
> The magicnet version is said to be compatible with mintnet. Otherwise you
> could use the sting version via gluestik.
>
> I'm not sure if the servers provided within the config are still online.
>
> If you need to run from mint.cnf, that's works well when you configure
> messages to "off" - altough it's still not
> 100% clean, because it calls appl_init() anyway, an AES call... however,
> that's how I used it with my falcon.
>
> Another option would be ntpclient or something like that. But I like my tool
> more =)
>
> It's my first program for atari, so there is much room for better code, the
> source is provided within the zip.
>
> Greets,
> m
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