From: Barry Pollock <barryp@mail.hurontel.on.ca>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:39:43 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310261928310.406@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310261713520.2720-100000@champion.sent.com>
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
> >
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> > 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 [this message]
` Sina Bahram
` 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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