Re: Looking for utilities

Re: Looking for utilities

[Steve Holmes]

Here is something I use.
-------- Begin file ----------
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/netdate clock.psu.edu
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
    clock -w
    echo CMOS clock has been set.
fi
---------- End of file ----------
This only checks one clock but I'm sure you could modify it to be more
precise by checking several clocks but this meets my needs.

I run this on my main server in crontab every day.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Richard Villa wrote:

> Now that have solved my mail issue, I wonder if someone can direct me to a
> couple of utilities.  I am looking for a disk defrag utility, and autility
> that will keep my hardware clock in sync with universal time.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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Re: Looking for utilities

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Richard:

Congrats! I see you've got it solved.

RE keeping your clock synched.

You could use ntpd, or you could do something like:

	rdate -s time-a.nist.gov

RE Diskdefrag. That's a windows concept. For the most part, you don't need 
to worry about that, and you certainly don't need to worry about it in the 
way you do have to worry about it in Windows. Here's a mostly accurate, 
and quite delightful piece on the subject:

	http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html

 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Richard 
Villa wrote:

> Now that have solved my mail issue, I wonder if someone can direct me to a 
> couple of utilities.  I am looking for a disk defrag utility, and autility 
> that will keep my hardware clock in sync with universal time.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Looking for utilities

[Gregory Nowak]

I just want to say thanks for that script. You've posted it on here some time ago, and it's been working perfectly for me ever since.
Greg


On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:11:27AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Here is something I use.
> -------- Begin file ----------
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/netdate clock.psu.edu
> if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
>     clock -w
>     echo CMOS clock has been set.
> fi
> ---------- End of file ----------
> This only checks one clock but I'm sure you could modify it to be more
> precise by checking several clocks but this meets my needs.
> 
> I run this on my main server in crontab every day.
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Richard Villa wrote:
> 
> > Now that have solved my mail issue, I wonder if someone can direct me to a
> > couple of utilities.  I am looking for a disk defrag utility, and autility
> > that will keep my hardware clock in sync with universal time.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
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Re: Looking for utilities

[Dan Murphy]

thanks Janina.  that was a really interesting article.


Dan Murphy
mailto:mweeby@nycap.rr.com
http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby

Looking for utilities

[Richard Villa]

Now that have solved my mail issue, I wonder if someone can direct me to a 
couple of utilities.  I am looking for a disk defrag utility, and autility 
that will keep my hardware clock in sync with universal time.

Richard

Re: Looking for utilities

[Richard Villa]

Janina,

Thanks for the information.

Richard