Re: using the date command

2007-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 07:54:48PM -0700, jekillen wrote: The removal of ntpdate is something I'll believe in when it happens. ntpd -q is a superior drop-in replace for ntpdate when it's being run from cron. OTOH if you run ntpd -q in place of ntpdate at boot (before starting ntpd), it adds

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec To date info about your timezone settings: $ zdump /etc/localtime /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The functionality of this program is now

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 30, 2007, at 6:13 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: using the date command

2007-09-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec To date info about your timezone settings: $ zdump /etc/localtime /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19 2007 EDT Options: $ ls /usr/shaoneinfo/ | egrep -v ^d

using the date command

2007-09-29 Thread jekillen
Hello all; I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still PDT). These machines