[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] sysntpd: restore support for peer-less (standalone) mode

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

On 03/06/2017 11:20 PM, Piotr Dymacz wrote:
> ntpd from Busybox supports peer-less (standalone) mode when it's started
> with option -l and without any peer provided with option -p. In this
> mode ntpd uses local time as reference and acts as stratum 1 server.
> 
> This mode can be used in isolated networks, where Internet access and/or
> other NTP server/s are not available, but the device has some other way
> of getting correct time, like e.g. GPS (ugps supports setting local time
> by default).
> 
> Support for this mode was incorrectly disabled/removed in:
> 1527f96ca6e196fa17c96fdb3ae520158fa5943f
> 
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>

> ---
>  package/utils/busybox/files/sysntpd | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/utils/busybox/files/sysntpd b/package/utils/busybox/files/sysntpd
> index 98260be..e693e40 100755
> --- a/package/utils/busybox/files/sysntpd
> +++ b/package/utils/busybox/files/sysntpd
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ start_service() {
>  
>  	[ $use_dhcp = 1 ] && get_dhcp_ntp_servers "$dhcp_interface"
>  
> -	[ -z "$server" ] && return
> +	[ -z "$server" -a "$enable_server" = "0" ] && return
>  
>  	procd_open_instance
>  	procd_set_param command "$PROG" -n -N
>