I foud a cable. I modified permissions on timesync.sh. After getting a permissions error on sleep I realized I did not even have that file on the machine. It was in the base.tar that I got from Roger. I put that on the player and gave it execute permission as well. I also gave execute permission to ntpdate.

Now if I try to run the timesync.sh from a shell I do get the delay from sleep. There is a new error though.

empeg:/usr/local/bin# timesync.sh
empeg:/usr/local/bin# /usr/local/bin/ntpdate: error in loading shared libraries:
librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What am I missing?