Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)
On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:35:13 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:14:00 Alan Corey wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:43:38 -0400
> >
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > These things don't have a clock, so they use fake-hwclock, so I
> > > turned on ntp.conf logging and that looks like its doing well. But
> > > since its not pestering the level one servers, just debians, I
> > > left that be. The diff is likely measured in micro-seconds.
> >
> > Actually the Rock64 does have a hardware clock, there's just no
> > battery so it's not useful. In the schematics somewhere it shows
> > how to hook a single lithium cell up.
> >
Presumably the usual cr2032? I could more than likely extract a carrier
from an old mobo.
> > See dmesg | grep rtc
> >
> > If you were using it portable or off-grid that would be important.
> >
> > I haven't built a Linux kernel in 10 years or so, used to do it
> > routinely in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Did it once in Linux because the
> > default one at the time wouldn't use more than 2 GB of RAM or
> > something. That was i386.
> >
> > My locale stuff didn't change until I'd rebooted, now it shows:
> >
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LANGUAGE=
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> > I've tried setting parts manually, never seems to work.
>
> But I have to go to the thing to reboot it, some security knucklehead
> has decided it doesn't fully boot until user 1000 is logged in from
> its own keyboard. Even then X needing stuff is not available from an
> ssh login. That I think might be related to the fact that user 1000 is
> hard coded into the install, which IMO is a huge mistake. I've tried
> to change that on 2 of these little credit card things, but thats
> impossible to do correctly so everything just works. So I have to put
> up with the username miss-match, and goto its own keyboard to run
> anything that needs X. That sort of stuff is usually found on the
> ground behind the male of the bovine specie. And I'm getting less and
> less inclined to stfu about it. Surely this first user can be created
> at first boot after writing a new image to the sd card it boots from?
>
> Can I make an alias on this machine so user pi or user rock64=gene as
> far as this X accepting the output of an ssh -Y pi@picnc and/or an ssh
> -Y rock64@rock64 for instance?
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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