INN2 on a Raspberry Pi 4? | Migrating between instances of INN2

[Avon]

Thank you Christoph  for the helpful replies

Thanks too for the others who have responded - appreciated.

I'll ponder next steps.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: inn-workers <inn-workers-bounces at lists.isc.org> On Behalf
> Of Christoph Biedl
> Sent: Saturday, 10 February 2024 12:31 PM
> To: inn-workers at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: INN2 on a Raspberry Pi 4? | Migrating between
> instances of INN2
> 
> Avon wrote...
> 
> > Anything Pi specific I should be aware of / wary of?
> 
> There is one point to keep in mind: The Pi4 does not have a
real-
> time clock, so the system time will be on Jan 1st 1970 upon
boot.
> The INN software will behave pretty strange with the clock being
> that far off, so take precautions for that.
> 
> Either in software by making sure INN start is postponed until
some
> ntp software did its job[1] and/or by asserting time
synchronisation
> in the initrd or even earlier. Or in hardware by buying some
battery-
> backed RTC.
> 
>     Christoph
> 
> [1] As an idea, innd could record its built time and refuse to
start
>     if the clock is earlier than that. Or just wait for a while.
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