NTP Daemon for ASUSWRT/Merlin

[Jack Yaz]

So who would like to give this a go?

https://github.com/jackyaz/ntpdMerlin

Tested on my RT-AC86U, all seems fine. I've done everything except a reboot (wife using the internet). I've uninstalled and installed the script several times with no complaints, so I'm quite confident there won't be any problems.

IMPORTANT: Requires Entware (I haven't coded a requirements check for install just yet)

 

[JDB]

So who would like to give this a go?

https://github.com/jackyaz/ntpdMerlin

Tested on my RT-AC86U, all seems fine. I've done everything except a reboot (wife using the internet). I've uninstalled and installed the script several times with no complaints, so I'm quite confident there won't be any problems.

Wow, that’s a chunk of code you’ve bashed out (excuse the pun!). I’ll try it shortly on my 86 and report back.


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[Jack Yaz]

Wow, that’s a chunk of code you’ve bashed out (excuse the pun!). I’ll try it shortly on my 86 and report back.


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Let me know if you run into any errors and I'll try to patch tonight

 

[JDB]

Page appeared but no images

Debugged to;

admin@JDBRouter:/www# ll ext 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    root            11 Dec  8 19:12 ext -> /var/wwwext



admin@JDBRouter:/www# ll /var/wwwext
ls: /var/wwwext: No such file or directory

admin@JDBRouter:/www# ll /tmp/var/wwwext/
drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    root             0 Jan  1  1970 cgi-bin/

So my symbolic link points to /var but the actual wwwext is in /tmp/var

Guessing you must have updated that symbolic link somehow bit not included it in the install?


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[Jack Yaz]

So my symbolic link points to /var but the actual wwwext is in /tmp/var

Guessing you must have updated that symbolic link somehow bit not included it in the install?

I skipped the symbolic link and images get written directly to /www/ext

Can you check if that dir exists?
What does

ls -la /www | grep ext

show?

 

[JDB]

I skipped the symbolic link and images get written directly to /www/ext

Can you check if that dir exists?

That’s my point, my /www/ext is a sym link to /var/wwwext which doesn’t exist!


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[PeterV]

Small issues:
In menu

##########################################################

grep: /jffs/scripts/nat-start: No such file or directory
[: bad number
1.    Generate updated ntpdMerlin graphs now

Due to in Auto_NAT check you didn't to check of /jffs/scripts/nat-start exists ...

And in my case I haven't var/wwwext in place, so I put in Generate_NTPStats
check and creation before first png generation

 

[Jack Yaz]

That’s my point, my /www/ext is a sym link to / var/wwwext which doesn’t exist!


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Should be fixed in 1.0.2

 

[Jack Yaz]

Small issues:
In menu

##########################################################

grep: /jffs/scripts/nat-start: No such file or directory
[: bad number
1.    Generate updated ntpdMerlin graphs now

Due to in Auto_NAT check you didn't to check of /jffs/scripts/nat-start exists ...

And in my case I haven't var/wwwext in place, so I put in Generate_NTPStats
check and creation before first png generation

Fixed in 1.0.2

 

[JDB]

Should be fixed in 1.0.1

Ran update and got v1.0.2

Still no fix

Ran install

And it says can’t mkdir ‘’ (i.e. blank)


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[Jack Yaz]

Ran update and got v1.0.2

Still no fix

Ran install

And it says can’t mkdir ‘’ (i.e. blank)


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Darn you grabbed the broken 1.0.2

run uf at the menu

(if that doesn't work then there's probably github caching in play, the fix is on line 291, remove the -f switch from readlink)

 

[JDB]

Darn you grabbed the broken 1.0.2

run uf at the menu

(if that doesn't work then there's probably github caching in play, the fix is on line 291, remove the -f switch from readlink)

Claimed it re-updated to 1.0.2, I ran install again but still no dice, same error


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[Jack Yaz]

Claimed it re-updated to 1.0.2, I ran install again but still no dice, same error


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Probably caching, I'll bump version to 1.0.3 (ive tested rm'ing directory and it gets created)

EDIT: 1.0.3 is now pushed

EDIT2: if still no dice, what does

readlink /www/ext

return?

 

[JDB]

Probably caching, I'll bump version to 1.0.3 (ive tested rm'ing directory and it gets created)

EDIT: 1.0.3 is now pushed

EDIT2: if still no dice, what does

readlink /www/ext

return?

Sorted [emoji106]



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[Jack Yaz]

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Awesome! This is the kind of thing I would have spotted if I'd rebooted sorry!

 

[JDB]

Not a problem!

Given I had to update and then install, might be worth having the update function run the install as a matter of course.


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[HardCat]

So who would like to give this a go?

https://github.com/jackyaz/ntpdMerlin

Tested on my RT-AC86U, all seems fine. I've done everything except a reboot (wife using the internet). I've uninstalled and installed the script several times with no complaints, so I'm quite confident there won't be any problems.

IMPORTANT: Requires Entware (I haven't coded a requirements check for install just yet)

Would you recommend getting rid of a previous installation before giving this a go?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Not a problem!

Given I had to update and then install, might be worth having the update function run the install as a matter of course.


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Update will usually work, but github's raw cdn can start caching - usually not an issue unless firing rapid requests (the install command and update point to the same URL to pull down the script)

 

[Jack Yaz]

Would you recommend getting rid of a previous installation before giving this a go?

That's a good point - and I would say yes if you want to use the script approach

 

[EmeraldDeer]

What is your thinking on hard coded command line arguments?

On the one hand, the most flexible approach is to only specify the config file and leave the rest to the config file. On the other hand, hard coding on the command line avoids unnecessary problems from user error.

-c /jffs/configs/ntp.conf
Mandatory

-f /opt/var/spool/ntp/ntp.drift
/opt/var/spool/ntp/ntp.drift: No such file or directory
Not sure if the daemon will eventually create?

-s /opt/var/spool/ntp
Stats dir defined but no stats files

-k /opt/etc/ntp
Symmetric keys unlikely to be used

-l /opt/var/spool/ntp/ntp.log"
OK if you insist