RaspberryPi 3 coreutils overwriting date symlink
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nisargap commented
Upon boot on ThingOS with the Raspberry Pi 3 I had the following message:
* Setting current date using http date: invalid option -- 'D'
Try 'date --help' for more information.
I bundled the which
utility to check which date binary is being installed:
# which date
/bin/date
I realized later on that I was including the gnu coreutils
package which overwrites the symlink for the date binary to Busybox.
Perhaps a solution would be to use the explicit file path in the /etc/init.d/S50date
file such that /bin/busybox date
is called perhaps even setting a variable DATEBIN=/bin/busybox\ date and using that instead such that users can use the coreutils
without having to create a separate overlay for the S50date file.