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rdate is ther by defoult on openwrt 10.03 rdate >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search On Unix-like operating systems, rdate is a tool for querying the current time from a network server and, optionally, setting the system time. Rdate uses the Time Protocol. The Time Protocol is generally considered obsolete and has been replaced by the Network Time Protocol (NTP). When used to set the local system time, rdate operates by changing system time immediately to the time and date returned by the server. Abrupt changes of clock settings have been found to cause problems for software relying on timing. This led to the development of the Network Time Protocol, which gradually changes the system time and does not skip ticks. Due to the problems described above, rdate is generally used only on systems where NTP is not available, or in specialized circumstances where it is required that system time be set correctly as soon as possible during initial setup, before services which may be vulnerable to abrupt time-changes have started. RDATE command, update you DATE and TIME from NTP RDATE retrieves the date and time from another machine on your network, using the RFC 868 protocol. If you run rdate as root, it will set your machine's local time to the time of the machine that you queried. This feature was included from release 1.3.4. This feature is available on foXServe, as BUILT-IN command. the command syntax is as follow: rdate -t 4 -s NTP_SERVER The command automatically adjust your system clock to the value provided by the network time server for example: rdate -t 4 -s 129.6.15.28 A list of Nework Time servers is available on: http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome If you would like to set automatically the time on startup you have just to follow the how to on this link: http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=57#10000 and use the following line instead of testprog.out /bin/rdate -t 4 -s NTP_SERVER rdate rdate [options] [host...] TCP/IP command. Retrieve the date and time from a host or hosts on the network and optionally set the local system time. Options -l Send errors and output to syslogd. -p Print the retrieved dates. -s Set the local system time from the host; must be specified by root. -t n Timeout each retrieval attempt after n seconds. -u Use UDP instead of TCP. _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
