gntp

ntp

Small NTP client written in GO. Used to schedule reboots on servers who's time is running in a fixed loop, and do not contain their own NTP service.

Usage

Place somewhere in your path and invoke without any arguments:

gntp

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Parse with awk to get hours:

gntp | awk '{print $1}'

run from cron every hour E=`/usr/local/bin/gntp | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ "${E}" = "${reboot_hour}" ]; then
  # sleep for an hour and then reboot
  sleep 3600 && shutdown -r now
fi