On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:21:02PM -0600, Bill Dodd wrote:
| I see you found an rdate, but if you have ntp installed you could
| also use ntpdate to do the same thing.
|
| I've got the same old bios 1994 problem; you may want to play with your rc
| files to get it to do the rdate/ntp stuff before cron starts. That keeps
| cron from seeing the big time step and deciding to run a bunch of
| daily/weekly stuff that it doesn't need to.
Yes, ntpdate is what you want -- it uses the same protocol as ntp, so
you don't need to find a special server for it.
As for rdate, most any Unix box that doesn't have the `small services' disabled in
inetd will do. For example ...
% rdate piglet.cc.utexas.edu
[piglet.cc.utexas.edu] Fri Dec 8 14:22:32 2000
% rdate cs.utexas.edu
[cs.utexas.edu] Fri Dec 8 14:23:04 2000
% rdate www.utexas.edu
[www.utexas.edu] Fri Dec 8 14:23:32 2000
% rdate eff.org
[eff.org] Fri Dec 8 14:31:44 2000
But ntpdate is better.
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