Newbie's problems understanding how Cron works

[Fuddyduddy]

Thanks Jocko.

I'm afraid I failed to spot that warning. I will now follow your instructions.

[Fuddyduddy]

Hi Jocko

(Gave myself a few days off ;) )

I followed the procedure, after checking showed no offset.

But it hasn't worked. Checking still shows no offset (I tried twice!)

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root@(none):/ # date;hwclock; php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'
Tue Sep 23 13:30:52 UTC 2014
Tue Sep 23 13:30:52 2014  0.000000 seconds
-sh: php: not found

Here's a screenshot of 'Setup'. As you'll see it sets the time for Helsinki to one hour earlier than it should be.

Any suggestions?

[Jocko]

Hi Fuddyduddy,

your post is very amazing.

1/ There is no reason that the php command fails because the path /usr/bin should be set in the PATH variable

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 echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/usr/bin:/opt/usr/sbin:/opt/lib

:scratch

but you can get around this difficulty by using the command

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date;hwclock;/usr/bin/php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'

2/ at least the 2 posted lines show that the localtime has no offset (UTC) :scratch Do you sure that you have submitted your change after selecting your timezone (you must click twice on 'accept' buttons : one to close the select window and 2d to submit.
Please could you post the outputs of

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ls -l /etc/localtime
ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*

You should get

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root@Acrab:/ # date;hwclock; php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'
Tue Sep 23 19:50:54 EEST 2014
Tue Sep 23 16:50:54 2014  0.000000 seconds
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:50:54 +0300
root@Acrab:/ # ls /etc/localtime -l
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 35 2014-09-23 19:50 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki
root@Acrab:/ # ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki


[Fuddyduddy]

Please could you post the outputs of

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ls -l /etc/localtime
ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*

Hi Jocko

I get

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root@(none):/ # ls -l /etc/localtime
ls: /etc/localtime: No such file or directory


and

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root@(none):/ # ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*
ls: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*: No such file or directory

[Jocko]

Hi fuddyduddy,

With your last output, it seems that your file system is corrupted (same thing with the PATH issue). I don't understand how this could happen. :scratch (but in this case you are lucky that you can get access to the NAS after booting.)

So you need to install again version 15.3 and of course after doing it, set your timezone.

[Fuddyduddy]

Jocko

I've just reinstalled ver. 15.3. Going to 'Setup' I found timezone still showing Helsinki (which I thought odd, but maybe not...?), and still showing the time wrong (ie fast). I cancelled it and set it to UTC, so as to have a clean baseline for re-setting it to Helsinki. Each time I clicked on 'Accept' in both places.

The time it's showing as UTC is wrong!!! When UTC is 09.28 fvdwsl shows the time as 10.23

I don't know what's going on. Do you?

[Jocko]

Ok, but :scratch

Close all putty window (to reset the shell variable environment)
and post again the outputs of

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echo $PATH
date;hwclock;/usr/bin/php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'
ls -l /etc/localtime
ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*

To understand the real status of your NAS

[Fuddyduddy]

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login as: root
root@192.168.11.5's password:
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/op/opt/usr/bin:/opt/usr/sbin:/opt/lib
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # date;hwclock;/usr/bin/php -r 'echo date("r"
Wed Sep 24 12:52:56 UTC 2014
Wed Sep 24 12:52:55 2014  0.000000 seconds
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:52:56 +0000
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 23 2014-09-24 10:14 /etc/localtime -> /uo/UTC
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # ls  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/H*
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki
root@fvdwsl-base:/ #


Jocko

This was timed at (approx) 1453. So UDT ought to have been returned as 1153 (approx). Instead it's 12.53 (approx)

[Jocko]

Thank,

I understand better.

This output is wrong

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root@fvdwsl-base:/ # ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 23 2014-09-24 10:14 /etc/localtime -> /uo/UTC

but I don't understand how you got this symlink :crazy.
if you select UTC as timezone you should get this output

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root@Acrab:/ #  ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 23 2014-09-24 12:53 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC

You need to set rightly this symlink.
So in the setup menu, do :
- open the select timezone window
- click on the delete button (this should close the window)
- open again the select timezone window
- browse into the window to select helsinki timezone
- click on "accept" button (this should close the window)
- click on the main "accept" button to submit your change

Now check if the symlink is ok (post the output) and do again

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date;hwclock;/usr/bin/php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'

to check if all times are rightly set.

[Fuddyduddy]

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login as: root
root@192.168.11.5's password:
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # date;hwclock;/usr/bin/php -r 'echo date("r")."\n";'
Wed Sep 24 17:19:24 EEST 2014
Wed Sep 24 14:19:23 2014  0.000000 seconds
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:19:24 +0300
root@fvdwsl-base:/ #


That looks right.

Do you agree?