On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2002-02-08 00:43 -0600, David Douthitt wrote: > > >So.... how important is setting the time/date with date? Is rdate > >(or ntpclient) enough?
> I think it's important to have the correct date. My ISP > NOC wont accept abuse reports without valid time stamps in > syslog. That doesn't answer my questions.... > I use rdate on my current floppy to set the time on boot. > rdate connects a server on my lan, and my server connects > to a timeserver on the Internet with xntpd. I use this > setup for two reasons. One, I feel it's more secure than > having the router/firewall accessing a time server on the > Internet. Two, rdate connections are refused by most > timeservers on the Internet. WIth rdate, I'd say that's the way to go.... for all the reasons you mentioned. So - can you do without "date -s" ? -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
