On 14:53 Fri 07 Oct , Jacob Bresciani wrote: > On Oct 7, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > > >On Friday 07 October 2005 02:25, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > > > >>Hi, I looked in the archives and to update my console clock the > >>command > >>is 'ntupdate' however this doesn't work. Can anyone tell me the > >>command? > >> > > > >This is a bit unclear. do you have the command or not ? > > > >it should be located in /usr/sbin, so trying it out as user will > >usually fail. > > > >If you find it, try as root : > > > >#> ntpdate pool.ntp.org > > > >This will try to read the time on a server over using UDP with port > >123, so > >that port should be opened outbound in your firewall. > > > >if you install the debian package, ntpdate will do this during each > >boot. > >So if you are like most people and reboot regularly, your system > >should stay > >quite on time. > > > >Cheers, > > > >Ernest. > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > or just cron it to happen on a regular basis (hourly...). I for one > don't reboot unless there is a kernel upgrade/patch and my clocks > need to stay sync'ed for Kerberos to function properly. > > And an FYI > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install ntpdate > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package ntpdate is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > E: Package ntpdate has no installation candidate > > my sources are as follows: > deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ testing main contrib non-free > deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main > contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main > contrib non-free > I got ntpdate from the _stable_ tree a few days ago.
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