Re: [gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 03:53:06 Walter Dnes wrote: Like the subject says, rdate has stopped working for me. I tried different timeservers, with and without iptables firewall, and it always times out. /var/log/portage shows that I emerged the current version of rdate back in early August last year. I just updated to baselayout 2 so I wonder if it's involved. revdep-rebuild doesn't find any problems. And I do have /etc/timezone set up... [i3][root][~] cat /etc/timezone Canada/Eastern The machine is amd64 stable. I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the server(s) you tried have changed their configuration? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Mick wrote I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the server(s) you tried have changed their configuration? Finally found one... nist1-ny.ustiming.org I'm in Toronto Canada, and New York City is about as close as it gets to me. Your message implies that there is some other program to get time from a server. Is it ntpd? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2
On 05/11/2011 08:09 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Mick wrote I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the server(s) you tried have changed their configuration? Finally found one... nist1-ny.ustiming.org I'm in Toronto Canada, and New York City is about as close as it gets to me. Your message implies that there is some other program to get time from a server. Is it ntpd? Most people (made-up statistic) use NTP. There are a couple of different implementations available; I personally think openntpd is the easiest to configure if you don't have chronic (pun extremely intended) time issues.
[gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2
Like the subject says, rdate has stopped working for me. I tried different timeservers, with and without iptables firewall, and it always times out. /var/log/portage shows that I emerged the current version of rdate back in early August last year. I just updated to baselayout 2 so I wonder if it's involved. revdep-rebuild doesn't find any problems. And I do have /etc/timezone set up... [i3][root][~] cat /etc/timezone Canada/Eastern The machine is amd64 stable. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
