Civileme....how about this. I did exactly the same install on
two machines. On one of them, when I went to run rdate, it
wasn't there. I had to get out the cd and manually install it.
The other machine had installed rdate, as you would expect, when
the original installation took place. Go figure.
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> Lane Lester wrote:
>
> > Civileme said:
> > > In linuxconf, click on the tab at the top of the initial screen
> > > that says "control"
> > > then select Time & Date
> > >
> > > put your timezone in the first block using the drop-down arrow.
> > >
> > > A server close to you should go in the second
> > >
> > > tick.gatech.edu
> > >
> > > would work just handily
> > >
> > > Leave the rest alone and quit, quit, activate changes.
> >
> > Linuxconf complained that it couldn't find rdate, and indeed it doesn't seem to
> > be on my system. I installed everything-but-server-Mandrake. A search at
> > freshmeat didn't turn up anything.
> >
> > Lane
> >
>
> Put your installation disk into the CD, get into root in graphic mode, and mount
> the CD if you are not using supermount.
>
> Then click on rpmdrake -- and wait a while while it loads its configuration....
>
> Then from the main window, use the drop-down menu from configurastion at the top
> to select CDROM and wait some more while it updates its database.
>
> Then click on the plus next to the system folder and you will find the rdate
> package/file/whatever listed. Click on it and then on install.
>
> <Casts aspersions on the ancestry of those who gave rdate such low priority for
> installs> Not everyone runs xntpd nor should they.....
>
> Civileme
