Originally Posted by
DavidSymons
Hi.
Frequent NTP updates on a TiVo are outside my experience I'm afraid. Anyone else???
I'm about to fire up my computer and connect via ppp to the TiVo, so as soon as I have an answer, I'll post it.
Edit:
telnet into tivo and edit crontab. This can be done in this way:
Code:
telnet 192.168.1.51
rw
cd /hack/etc
vi crontab
G
i
59 23 * * * /bin/ntpdate server.ip.address.here
ESC ESC
:wq
sync
ro
For all those above, rw makes the file system read/write, using vi, "G" (capital G) makes it go to the last line. "i" (lower case i) is insert.
59 23 * * * /bin/ntpdate server.ip.address.here
59 minutes, 23 hours past ie. 11:59pm, execute ntpdate with the variable server ip address. I say server IP address because tivo cannot do dns/WINS lookups by default
ESC ESC (press escape twice), :wq (colon, lower case "w", lower case "q") it will show on screen. This means "Write and Quit".
sync - Write changes to disk just in case it writes them later and we reboot before then.
ro - Set the file system back to "Read Only"
If you know how to use "joe" to make the adjustments, go ahead. just remove the commands like "G" and "i" and ":wq" and such.
Last edited by tenty; 26-04-2004 at 07:28 PM.
Reason: Update
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