Which service is getting time & date on Debian Wheezy? I want to disable it.

[John Baker]

I'm trying to disable the service that gets the time and date over the Internet. I want to do that in hopes that the BBB will instead get the time and date from my Adafruit DS3231 and I suspect the BBB is trying for a minute to get the time and date over the Internet. with the result that the BBB doesn't read the time and date from my DS3231 for a minute.

There is no ntpdate service on the Wheezy, or I would simply disable it.

Thanks,

John

[Mike]

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If systemd is enabled disabling timedatectl will do it.

#systemctl disable timedatectl

Mike

[John Baker]

Mike:

I can't find timedatectl. It's not a service in /lib/systemd/system and I can't find it anywhere in the BBB's Debian Wheezy installation. So I suspect the Wheezy distro is using some other service, but I can't figure out what.

There is a service file named dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service which is Loaded but inactive (dead).

John

[William Hermans]

william@beaglebone:~/dev$ dpkg -l | grep ntpdate
ii  ntpdate                            1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7+deb8u1              armhf        client for setting system time from NTP servers

william@beaglebone:~/dev$ sudo apt-get remove --purge ntpdate

That should solve the problem. But, you may also want to check and see if the package fake-hwclock is installed, and remove that as well.


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[William Hermans]

By the way, I think Robert has a script *somewhere* what runs ntpdate at boot. But I do not remember where it is. I checked /opt/scripts/ on my BBB, but I'm running Jessie, and could not find such a script. But it could also be either a sysv init script, or an rc.d startup script, and potentially even a a cron job( unlikely ).