Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:56:34 -0500 From: Brett Wynkoop <wynkoop@wynn.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: george@ceetonetechnology.com, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some ideas on Tim's script Message-ID: <20130130125634.362da893@ivory.lan> In-Reply-To: <1359567555.93359.250.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com> <20130130110138.62b4570e@ivory.lan> <1359567555.93359.250.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:39:15 -0700 Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Look in /var/run/dmesg.boot for this line: > > mmcsd0: 1876MB <SD SU02G 8.0 SN 3406901 MFG 09/2010 by 48 SD> Good tip, which my sleep deprived brain did not think of when I wrote my reply! Thanks for the reminder. > > That's the manufacturer info (SD = sandisk in this case). The number > (48, its base-10) is the manufacturer ID, which you can look up on > websites when you don't recognize the initials. This part I did not know and I find very cool! > Better than ntpdate is to set ntpd_enable and ntpd_sync_on_start to > YES. > I made a conscious choice to not run ntpd and instead run ntpdate out of cron. Why? I wanted cron for other reasons anyway, so doing ntpdate once an hour seemed lighter weight than running cron and ntpd both all the time. I might be wrong, but that was the thought process. The discussions on this list seem to always exercise my brain! It is great interacting with all of you on these matters! -Brett -- wynkoop@wynn.com http://prd4.wynn.com/wynkoop/pgp-keys.txt 917-642-6925 718-717-5435 "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government" - Thomas Jefferson.
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