David Douthitt, 2002-02-09 01:41 -0600
On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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
On 2/9/02 at 6:18 AM, Mike Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use UTC/GMT for my router, because I think it's harder
to track abuse across disparate systems that use local TZ.
Is this reasoning sound?
Not sure. The usual reason given for using GMT (on the hardware,
anyway) is so that the
On 2/9/02 at 2:14 AM, Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, since we are limited to shell scripting and my
recent work on leaf has required me to compare dates and
times, a working-as-advertised -d operation would simplify
alot for me . . .
What do you think?
The date
David Douthitt wrote:
On 2/9/02 at 2:14 AM, Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, since we are limited to shell scripting and my
recent work on leaf has required me to compare dates and
times, a working-as-advertised -d operation would simplify
alot for me . . .
David Douthitt wrote:
On 2/9/02 at 6:18 AM, Mike Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use UTC/GMT for my router, because I think it's harder
to track abuse across disparate systems that use local TZ.
Is this reasoning sound?
If you are going to be sharing your log with respected
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?
David,
I think it's important to have the correct date. My ISP NOC wont accept
abuse reports without valid time stamps in syslog.
I use rdate on my
I figured out some of the confusion I was seeing:
snip
6) There is a NTP client - ntpclient appropriately - which
could replace rdate, if it is small enough...
On my system, ntpclient is 12320 bytes compiled under uClibc (0.9.9+),
6474 bytes zipped at maximum compression.
David Douthitt
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
David Douthitt wrote:
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
