Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-03 Thread Luke C Gavel
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Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Anthony E . Greene wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:05:36 John Aldrich wrote: > >A good util is "rdate" to sync your pc clock with an atomic > >clock over the 'Net. > > The only problem with rdate for non-realtime apps is that you have to jump > through hoops to see if it fai

Re: Fun with rdate (was: HELP -- System Time problem.)

2001-01-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:40:48PM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote: > > > >Just throwing some obvious errors at it, it does return 1 in limiting > >testing. FWIW. > > That blurb is in the version that shipped with RH6.2 and I have not found an > error condition that results in a nonzero exit code

Re: Fun with rdate (was: HELP -- System Time problem.)

2001-01-02 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:28:01 Hal Burgiss wrote: >On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:18:37PM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote: >> The only problem with rdate for non-realtime apps is that you have >> to jump through hoops to see if it failed. It _always_ gives an exit >> code of zero, no matter what errors

Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:18:37PM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:05:36 John Aldrich wrote: > >A good util is "rdate" to sync your pc clock with an atomic > >clock over the 'Net. > > The only problem with rdate for non-realtime apps is that you have > to jump through h

Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:05:36 John Aldrich wrote: >A good util is "rdate" to sync your pc clock with an atomic >clock over the 'Net. The only problem with rdate for non-realtime apps is that you have to jump through hoops to see if it failed. It _always_ gives an exit code of zero, no matter what

Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, John N. Alegre wrote: > I am running RedHat 6.1/6.2 on two towers and a Think Pad. Both the towers > switched the year just fine, but the laptop booted Monday morning with a date > in 1999 and a time seven hours off. I used the control-panel time machine and > changed the da

Re: HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread Mike Burger
Your laptop's system clock is behind. Once you set the time again, open up a command prompt, and, as root, run "hwclock systohc" to set the hardware clock. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, John N. Alegre wrote: > I am running RedHat 6.1/6.2 on two towers and a Think Pad. Both the towers > switched the year

HELP -- System Time problem.

2001-01-02 Thread John N. Alegre
I am running RedHat 6.1/6.2 on two towers and a Think Pad. Both the towers switched the year just fine, but the laptop booted Monday morning with a date in 1999 and a time seven hours off. I used the control-panel time machine and changed the date and time and selected "Set System Time". Afte