Note: ntp needs to be installed for this to work. I know this works on my SuSE, RH and Fedora systems. Put this script in your /etc/cron.daily/ and never have to worry about your computer's time being wrong again.
Consider this a Chrismas Hanukah, New Years present. There, my good deed is done for the year. Hope Santa notices.
Happy holidays everyone. :-D
[script] #!/bin/sh # # $Id: sync-clock,v 1.5 2003/02/04 20:23:39 jmates Exp $ # # Use ntpdate to get rough clock sync with the time server.
NTPDATE=/usr/sbin/ntpdate SERVER=ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca LOGFILE=/var/log/ntp-update
echo -n "Start -- " >> $LOGFILE date >> $LOGFILE
# if running from cron (no tty available), sleep a bit to space
# out update requests to avoid slamming a server at a particular time
if ! test -t 0; then
MYRAND=$RANDOM
MYRAND=${MYRAND:=$$}if [ $MYRAND -gt 9 ]; then sleep `echo $MYRAND | sed 's/.*\(..\)$/\1/' | sed 's/^0//'` fi fi
$NTPDATE -su $SERVER
# update hardware clock on Linux (RedHat?) systems if [ -f /sbin/hwclock ]; then /sbin/hwclock --systohc fi
echo -n "Done -- " >> $LOGFILE date >> $LOGFILE [/script]
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Jason Louie BSc. CPSC Web Applications Developer Sorex Software Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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