[Lxc-users] reading hwclock from container

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Sat 2011-12-17 (14:38), DTK wrote:
> I am trying to avoid having to install NTP in every container, so I
> came up with following idea.
> 
> Main server cron job
> 
>         * 0 *  * * /sbin/hwclock -w
> 
> Each container has following cron job
> 
>         10 0 *  * * /sbin/hwclock -s
> 
> However, the container can't access /dev/rtc and I am guessing that
> has something to do with my cgroup config line:
> 
>        lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 254:0 rwm # rtc
> 
> Anyway I can fix this? Or get the same result some other way?

Run ntpd on the server host.
time is a kernel issue and you have only one kernel running.

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