That's because of Mandrake's charming "50% rule."
The machine with rdate had more hard-disk space free when you did the
install.
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| 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
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