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Jason
Asked: 2011-08-17 16:11:26 +0800 CST

Time problems on my Synology NAS 1511 running Busybox linux

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I'm running a MS windows, using Netbeans 7. I occasionally get a problem when I hit save, "This file was modified externally, are you sure you want to overwrite"

Further investigation has led me to believe that the problem is with the times being out of sync between the NAS and my computer. All the computers on our network sync their time with time.windows.com

Can anyone advise me on how to sync the linux box with time.windows.com, if this is possible? Or can someone suggest an alternative method to syncing the time together?

I have 5 windows PCs and one mac. Netbeans is the only program that throws this error, I think because the way it is coded is to check the last time saved against the file's last modified date, which because the NAS is set to be 2 minutes behind the rest of the PCs it constantly gets confused.

The NAS is mounted through SAMBA if this makes any difference.

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BusyBox v1.16.1 (2011-04-08 10:13:58 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

blackbird> uname -a
Linux blackbird 2.6.32.12 #1613 SMP Fri Apr 8 10:10:14 CST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux synology_x86_1511+
blackbird>
linux time time-synchronization busybox

1 Answers

  1. There is a utility available on most if not all linux distribution called 'ntpdate'

    More information can be found here, including some very nice installation documentation and examples.

    http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/

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