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From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: Help with date and redhat 9
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:25:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301c39c29$4791de40$6401a8c0@quantum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310261928310.406@box>

Thanks for the help.

Take care,
Sina

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of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Barry Pollock
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:40 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9


in redhat you can set the clock using rdate
rredhat puts rdate in /usr/bin
and debian puts it in /usr/sbin


here is my debian script
You can put it in cron.daily.


I call mine
/etc/cron.daily/gettime

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/rdate -s time1.unet.brandeis.edu







On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Sima,
>
> Here is how I do it. The following command is executed as root:
>
> netdate -l 0 tick.wustl.edu tcp bumpy.braille.uwo.ca
>
> It is probably best to make an alias for this, or put it in a script 
> or something. In my case, I execute that line within my ip-up script.
>
> It will update your time within the kernel, but not reset the hardware

> clock. That turns out to be no problem on this slackware system, since

> slackware copies the time from the kernel into the hardware clock 
> during the shutdown process, and the only other time the hardware 
> clock is referenced is during bootup, I believe.
>
> The line above references two time servers, in case one or the other 
> might be down for some reason.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 my mutt shit itself Alex Snow
 ` Help with date and redhat 9 Sina Bahram
   ` Chuck Hallenbeck
     ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Sina Bahram
     ` Barry Pollock
       ` Sina Bahram [this message]
   ` Adam Myrow
     ` Sina Bahram
       ` Sina Bahram
         ` Chuck Hallenbeck
           ` Sina Bahram
             ` Chuck Hallenbeck
               ` Sina Bahram
       ` Chuck Hallenbeck
         ` Sina Bahram
           ` Alex Snow
             ` Sina Bahram
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Sina Bahram
               ` Alex Snow
   ` Alex Snow
     ` Sina Bahram

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