I made a simple script that syncs my system time and logs the output so I can track how my clock is drifting (I know ntp-server is built into KM and for this exercise I have disabled it by removing it from the rc.d and from /etc/cron.daily and weekly)

Here's the script
It has been chmodded to 755 and runs fine from the root user when I do it manually. I also chmodded the log file to 666 so any user and read/write to that file.

I have copied it to my /etc/cron.hourly but when I check the log file, it has not been running. The only entry in the log is the one that ran when I manually ran it from root. Anyone know what's going on? I'm assuming that cron runs as root doesn't it?

Finally, if I try to run it from the mythtv user I get this: which I'm taking to be that only root can change the clock.

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Seems like it should work. The cron.daily scripts are run using run-parts from /etc/crontab. Might want to make sure cron is running.



You could also do 'man run-parts' and see if anything in the man page rings a bell. You could also try adding #!/bin/sh as the very first line of your script and see if that makes a difference (see the other scripts in cron.daily).

Hope that helps.
good luck!

I think you need to have the full path to ntpdate in your script.

That was the problem, thanks for the suggestion.

For reference, the script reads

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