From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.102] helo=ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ADu2Z-0002XQ-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:19 -0500 Received: from quantum (rdu74-168-227.nc.rr.com [24.74.168.227]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9QNB5hg005683 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Sina Bahram" To: Subject: RE: Help with date and redhat 9 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:09 -0500 Organization: HOME Message-ID: <000101c39c16$74b61750$6401a8c0@quantum> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-reply-to: <20031026222911.GA10507@gmx.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: It seems I'm the only person in the world without netdate or ntpdate. Any other commands I can use. I'm amazed that redhat 9, full installation, doesn't have either of those two commands availible. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:29 PM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9 Hi. the timeserver I've been using is time-nw.nist.gov. I have cron run this once an hour by putting a sscript like this in my /etc/cron.hourly directory: #!/bin/bash ntpdate -b time-nw.nist.gov this tells ntpdate to get the current time from time-nw.nist.gov. I'm not sure if readhat has a cron.hourly directory but if it doesn't just add the above command to your crontab with crontab -e. read the manpage for crontab for more info on the syntax. On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:20:49PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > Hello all > > I am having a bit of a problem with the date command. I want to set it > up so that my computer can fetch the current date from a time server. > However, I know of no time servers and I also have no clue how to pass > the correct arguments to the date command. Can anyone help me out on > this? > > What should be the commands to the date command to tell it to look at > some server for the time, and set the system time accordingly. I am on > eastern standard time if that helps. > > Thanks, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup