[time-nuts] Beaglebone NTP server

Paul tic-toc at bodosom.net
Wed Mar 26 21:37:43 EDT 2014


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Henry Hallam <henry at pericynthion.org>wrote:

> I have a Z3805A and a Beaglebone, and would like to set up an NTP
> server for the lab.
>

Here's an example for the Black.  I believe the same ideas apply to the
Beaglebone (White).

http://the8thlayerof.net/2013/12/08/adafruit-ultimate-gps-cape-creating-custom-beaglebone-black-device-tree-overlay-file/

I prefer the Beaglebone to the Pi because of the silly USB glitch but out
of three BBBs only one will run for more than a month without wedging.
This may be because I run Debian but as with the Pi USB bug it's not much
comfort when the box fails.  The Pi I use as an NTP server ran for 4 months
and developed a filesystem error.  It's been up two months post-repair.  If
I depended on a server built around a dev board I'd be careful to make the
SDcard/eMMC read-only and build more than one.


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