Make a cron job that runs this command once a day:  ntpdate time.datum.com.  Works really well for me.  I hope this helps.

Scott Jones

On 4/20/05, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 15:41 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:49:32 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 14:29 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh:
> | > rdate -s ntp.foo.com
> |
> | Sorry, but no. rdate != ntp.
>
> Actually, yes. The request was for "Time Syncronization on Gentoo
> Linux", which rdate does just fine.

I don't doubt that. But not from an ntp server (You wrote: ntp.foo.com),
unless per incident there is a timed running on the same machine.

Bye...

        Dirk
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