Add new utility and init script swclock that sets the system time based on

the mtime of a file. It saves the shutdown time to this file also.
This is handy for systems without a working RTC chip.
Based on an idea by Michael A. Smith <michael@smith-li.com>.
Fixes Gentoo #272073.
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Roy Marples
2009-10-13 08:03:45 +01:00
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#!@PREFIX@/sbin/runscript
# Copyright (c) 2009 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
# All rights reserved. Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
description="Sets the local clock to the mtime of a given file."
depend()
{
before *
keyword -openvz -prefix -uml -vserver -xenu
}
# swclock is an OpenRC built in
start()
{
ebegin "Setting the local clock based on last shutdown time"
swclock
eend $?
}
stop()
{
ebegin "Saving the shutdown time"
swclock --save
eend $?
}